Spine

Low back pain is the leading cause worldwide of years lost to disability, and its burden is increasing along with a growing — and aging — population. A viewpoint article in The Lancet calls for action on this global problem.

Four spine surgeons recount the moments in their career when they have felt the proudest.

Planet TV Studios featured Harry Shufflebarger, MD, director of the division of pediatric spinal surgery at Miami-based Nicklaus Children's Hospital.

A Spine study found lumbar spine paraspinal muscle atrophy in astronauts after long-term spaceflight.  

New York City-based Maimonides Medical Center CEO and President Kenneth Gibbs, along with chair of surgery Patrick Borgen, MD, and chair of orthopedics Jack Choueka, MD, cut the ribbon on the Maimonides Spine Center in Brooklyn.

A new study published in Clinical Spine Surgery compares the Bryan Cervical Disc to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, measuring adjacent segment disease after surgery.

Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for March 22, 2018.

A new study published in Spine questions whether surgeons are overestimating the association between obesity and perioperative adverse outcomes due to ICD coding classifications.

Manish Shah, MD, is pediatric neurosurgeon at Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in Houston. Dr. Shah makes annual trips to Haiti to perform endoscopic surgery on children with hydrocephalus, according to The Princeton Alumni Weekly.

Researchers from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus investigated the impact of chronic opioid therapy on complications following spinal fusion surgery.