Spine

    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.

The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery awarded the ISASS Leon Wiltse Award for Best Overall Paper at the organization's annual meeting last week.

  Artificial disc replacement emerged as a motion-sparing alternative to spinal fusion several years ago.

Surgeons from Mount Sinai Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Spine Center and the University of Toronto authored a paper in The Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine about the health state utility of patients undergoing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion or cervical disc arthroplasty.

On April 24, CBS This Morning aired a report titled "Tapping into Controversial Back Surgeries," examining fusion rates around the United States.