Spine

During a presentation at the Current Concepts in Joint Replacement Winter Meeting, Edwin P. Su, MD, highlighted patient and surgeon factors associated with the development of motor nerve palsy after primary total hip arthroplasty.

Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for Dec. 10, 2015.

Stimwave Technologies, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., received FDA clearance to market its Stimwave Freedom-8A SCS System.

A new study published in The Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques examines the risk factors for recurrent lumbar disc herniation at L5-S1 preoperatively.

John Mascari, the Indiana State All-American distance runner will undergo spine surgery in January, according to the Tribune Star.

Seattle-based Cadence Biomedical developed the Kickstart device, designed for patients relearning how to walk, according to MedCity News.

Researchers in the Laboratory for Biomaterials and Drug Delivery at Boston Children's Hospital and at Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology are conducting preclinical studies examining two methods that use a laser to trigger on-demand release of a local anesthetic, according…

A new meta-analysis published in Spine examines the randomized controlled trials involving cervical disc arthroplasty compared with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion for treating one-level cervical disc degeneration.

A new study published in Spine examines how comorbidity indices for patient outcomes evolved for cervical compression surgery. The researchers reviewed 86 cervical myelopathy cases where patients underwent decompression surgery between 2004 and 2010. The researchers found:

Grace O'Connell, PhD, of the University of California, Berkeley, J. Kent Leach and Eric Klineberg, both from UC, Davis and UC, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif., published a new paper on tissue engineering for biologically repairing lumbar disc herniation.…