Spine

UC San Francisco is cutting patient recovery times by offering to perform the procedure while they're still awake.

Dallas-based Texas Spine Consultants partner and surgeon Andrew Park, MD, performed the minimally invasive lower back pain Intracept procedure Jan 21.

The North American Spine Society opened three revised coverage recommendations for comment.

Here are the top 10 most-read articles on Becker's Spine Review from Feb. 25-March 1.

A study in Spine analyzed trends in U.S. lumbar fusion rates and associated costs by surgical indication.

Patients obtain their expectations for lumbar surgery from multiple sources, according to a study in Spine.

International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery's Reimbursement Task Force Chair Morgan Lorio attended a meeting with CMS to discuss the upcoming Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. Minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusion was the focus during the meeting.

The neurosurgery market in Asia is expected to experience tremendous growth, according to a Persistence Market Research report.

Here are five spine and neurosurgeons making headlines.

Tampa, Fla.-based Joseph Spine's Samuel Joseph, MD, and Andrew Moulton, MD, traveled to the Dominican Republic with other surgeons in early February to perform several spinal surgeries.