Spine

Tupelo, Miss.-based neurosurgeon Walter Eckman, MD, retired after more than 40 years in neurosurgery, according to a Daily Journal report.

A study published in The Spine Journal examines placebos used during lumbar and pelvic joint thrust manipulation clinical trials.

Michael Roh, MD, and Fred Sweet, MD, of Illinois-based Rockford Spine Center, attended the Scoliosis Research Society Annual Meeting & Course in Prague, Czech Republic.

The Congress of Neurological Surgeons has entered into a partnership with Oxford University Press.

Researchers investigated the prevalence of undiagnosed osteoporosis in patients receiving transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion, according to Medscape. Spine published the study.

In the last half of the 20th century, patients who needed surgery for two-level cervical disease almost certainly were treated with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF).

Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for Nov. 23, 2016.

Discogenic pain has long been treated in the most aggressive manner, with entire disc removal. This surgery eradicates the disc's function, however, impacting a patient's range of motion and ability to absorb shock.

A new study published in The Spine Journal examined whether the increase in spinal deformity patients age 60 and older was associated with more complications.

Vishad Sukul, MD, joined Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center's neurosurgery department, according to timesunion.