Spine

Frank Mir, a two-time UFC heavyweight champion, is recovering from spine surgery at MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas, according to a June 4 report from NBC affiliate News 3 Las Vegas. Earlier in 2025, Mr. Mir lost feeling in his…

Reston, Va.-based VSI led a multicenter study validating its Enhanced Surgical Recovery program in spinal fusion patients, the practice said June 5.  The study took place at 138 centers in the U.S. and analyzed outcomes of more than 50,000 thoracolumbar…

Spinal fusion will remain a “workhorse” in spine care even as motion-preserving care continues to improve, Timothy Witham, MD, predicts. Dr. Witham is director of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Spine Program in Baltimore and serves as a professor. He also…

From creating “digital twins” to neuromonitoring improvements, spine surgeons discuss ways artificial intelligence will integrate into their work next. Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of questions posed to spine surgeons around the country about clinical, business and policy…

Medical device manufacturer Highride Medical, one of the world’s largest privately held spine companies, is selling its bone healing division to focus exclusively on spine.  Highride has completed the sale of the division to private equity-backed firm Avista Healthcare Partners,…

Robert Norton, MD, founded West Palm Beach-based Florida Spine Associates in 2015 with Brian Burrough, MD.  Dr. Norton, a spine surgeon, met Dr. Burrough during their residencies at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Dr. Burrough, an interventional pain management physician,…

Jared Ament, MD, and Amir Vokshoor, MD, of Santa Monica-based Neurosurgery & Spine Group performed the world’s first clinical case combining Premia Spine’s Tops and Centinel Spine Prodisc-L implants. The 360-degree arthroplasty was used to treat a 36-year-old man with…

Frank Phillips, MD, has been a proponent of minimally invasive spine surgery for decades and is director of minimally invasive spine surgery at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago. Dr. Phillips has been a leader in minimally invasive spine surgery…

All criminal charges against Kingsley Chin, MD, and his company SpineFrontier were dismissed. The move stems from a 2016 case after three whistleblowers triggered a civil inquiry into Dr. Chin and the company, and that matter was resolved in November…

Mohamad Bydon, MD, is the incoming chair of neurosurgery at UChicago Medicine. He was named to the inaugural role in February and will step into the role July 1. Currently he’s a neurosurgeon at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic where he…