Spine

Here are the 10 most-read articles featured on Becker's Spine Review between March 19 and March 23.

A new study published in The Spine Journal examines episode of care costs for adult spinal deformity surgery.

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.