Spine

Here two surgeons discuss the importance of a balanced professional and personal life.

Board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon Robert Hart, MD, will serve as Seattle-based Swedish Neuroscience Institute's new director of spinal deformities.

Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for Sept. 8, 2016.

St. John’s Medical Center successfully used the Marshall Steele program to create the Peak Joint Replacement Center; now the hospital wants to create a similar program for spine surgeries, according to a Jackson Hole News & Guide report.

John V. Prunskis, MD, sheds insight into the evolving pain management field and how interventional pain physicians can succeed in light of these changes.  

Brian Gantwerer, MD, of The Craniospinal Center of Los Angeles, discusses strategies for building a successful minimally invasive spine practice and how it fits in the value-based healthcare.

Athletes with spinal cord injuries don't experience thermoregulation, causing their bodies to overheat, according to The Conversation. Spinal cord injuries prevent the body from producing sweat or regulating blood flow below the spinal injury level.

Researchers assessed the accuracy and safety of using intraoperative cone-beam CT and an image-guided navigation system during minimally invasive lateral lumbar interbody fusion, according to a study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine.

Frank H. Valone III, MD, will join California Pacific Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in San Francisco, effective Sept. 12.

Frank Phillips, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, comments on developments in minimally invasive spine surgery.