Spine

At the 12th Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference + The Future of Spine in Chicago on June 14, TK Miller, MD, with Carilion Clinic Orthopedics in Virginia; Todd Evans, with Capital Growth Medvest; and Joseph Zasa, co-founder…

Here are five recent spine and neurosurgeon achievements and appointments.

Researchers investigated the outcomes of minimal access spinal surgery in managing infectious spondylitis and compared the results to traditional anterior spinal surgery, with a minimum follow-up of two years, and published the results in The Spine Journal.

In early June, six-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen was involved in an ATV accident that broke her spine and severed her spinal cord. Neurosurgeon Luis Manuel Tumialan, MD, performed successful surgery on the former Olympian. Here are…

  Scientists have identified two rare genetic mutations that greatly increase a child's chance of developing severe scoliosis, according to a report from HealthDay.

Here are 10 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons in the news this week.

During a panel at the 12th Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-driven ASC Conference + The Future of Spine in Chicago June 12, Stephen Hochschuler, MD, chairman at Plano-based Texas Back Institute; Kenneth Renkens, MD, senior partner with Indiana Spine…

  Neurosurgeons Ali Baaj, MD, and Kumar Kakarla, MD, have successfully performed corrective spine surgery on a severely deformed Ugandan orphan at the Tucson-based University of Arizona Medical Center.

Financial issues are top-of-mind for most surgeons today. Three spine surgeons discuss the financial challenges worrying them the most and how they feel about the future.

A new report from Research and Markets shows the United States spinal fusion market share will shrink over the next few years.