Spine

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.

The Scoliosis Research Society collaborated with the International Spine Study Group Foundation and several spine industry leaders to complete the Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis II study.

Researchers investigated factors related to rod slippage with magnetically controlled growing rods, in a new study published in Spine.