Spine

Boone, N.C.-based Watauga Medical Center, part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, has recently has added several new surgical options, including spine surgery.

  Roger Härtl, MD, professor of neurological surgery and his spine team in collaboration with Larry Bonassar, PhD, and his biomedical engineering team, of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York have been named the 2014 winners of the Ronald…

The media has paid a lot of attention to physician compensation recently as a means to decrease the cost of care, but among spine patients — even surgical patients — the surgeon's compensation is just a small piece of a…

Researchers recently examined the Cochrane Back Review Group Trials Register electronic databases to analyze articles comparing the effectiveness of active rehabilitation with usual care in adults who underwent primary spinal decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis and published their results in…

Lincoln (Neb.) Orthopaedic Center announced the addition of Robert Rentfro, MD, to its spine center team.

St. Cloud (Minn.) Hospital recently expanded its neuroscience/spine unit, according to a SC Times report.

Radiation exposure to the surgeon during pedicle screw placement with the freehand technique is greater than with the use of navigation, according to study published in Spine.

  Globus Medical, a musculoskeletal implant manufacturer, announced the launch of MONUMENT, an anterior spondylolisthesis reduction system.

  Gregory D. Schroeder, MD, of the department of orthopedic surgery at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, along with physicians from the University of British Columbia in Canada and Center for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics in Chattanooga,…

Facing an increasingly uncertain healthcare climate, spine surgeons have to make a tough choice — whether to remain independent or take up hospital employment. Two spine surgeons weigh in on the issue.