Spine

The North American Spine Society blog posted an update of legislative activity impacting spine surgeons and how the organization is monitoring these potential changes.

  Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for May 8, 2014.

Houston-based Spine Pain Management announced that it is signing of a letter of intent with the Odessa-based Back Pain Institute of West Texas, and when a definitive agreement is finalized, the institute will become a new diagnostic affiliate for Spine…

Regional Brain and Spine in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is a multidisciplinary spine practice with a unique operating agreement in an ambulatory surgery center: the physicians lease the ASC one day per week to perform their cases.

    Amit Darnule, MD, of Southlake-based Spine Team Texas is the first physician in the Greater Fort Worth area to implant the Protégé system, a spinal cord stimulator.

A study recently published in the Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques examines eight randomized, controlled clinical trials comparing spinal fusion with bone morphogenetic progestin and iliac crest autologous bone graft.

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons and National Association of Spine Specialists — along with several other specialty organizations — signed a letter to the FDA outlining recommended practices for distributing scientific and medical publications on unapproved new uses for…

Mark Fye, MD, of Steubenville, Ohio-based Trinity Health System, performed the region's first cervical spinal disc replacement, according to a report by The Herald-Star.

Healthcare is becoming more evidence-based and providers from around the country are gathering data with electronic medical records to show their treatments — surgical or not — produce good outcomes and are cost-effective.

Overweight and obese patients have increased risk for complication when compared with normal weight patients, according to a study published in Spine.