Spine

The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery released a policy statement on cervical artificial disc replacement.

St. Cloud, Minn.-based CentraCare Health has opened the new wing of its Neuroscience and Spine Unit, according to a WJON report.

  Jon Robertson, MD, has received a 2014 Outstanding Physician Award from the Tennessee Medical Association during its annual convention, according to a Memphis Business Journal report.

Three spine surgeons discuss whether their practices are ready for the transition to ICD-10.

A study recently published in Spine compared randomized controlled trial abstract to the manuscripts published in the recent spine literature.

The North American Spine Society created evidence-based coverage policy recommendations for spine care treatments, procedures and diagnostics.

Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for May 1, 2014.

  More than half of spine and neurosurgeons admitted to wrong-level localization — operations on incorrect levels in the spinal cord — when performing posterior spine surgery, during their careers, according to the results of a national survey published in…

Daniel Lu, MD, and Reggie Edgerton, MD, recently received a five-year grant to explore new therapies for patients with spinal cord injuries from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Dr. Lu and Dr. Edgerton are researchers at the…

A study recently published in Spine examines the patient characteristics associated with increased postoperative length of stay and readmission after elective laminectomy for lumbar spinal stenosis.