Spine

Direct surgical decompression with coflex Interlaminar Stabilization Technology provides stability to the spine without fusion, according to a Paradigm Spine report titled "Understanding Spinal Stenosis."

The Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine recently published a report examining opinions about the conflict of interest between physicians and industry-sponsored education.

The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University in Atlanta announced the results of a clinical trial that showed that a single injection of stem cells into degenerative discs reduced low back pain for at least 12 months.

 The U.S. spinal surgery market revenues is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.8 percent from 2013 to 2017, according to a report released by Research and Markets.

Spinal arthroplasty has been on the cutting edge of spine technology and technique development for the past decade. While some surgeons rushed to adapt the new technology as an alternative to fusion, others waited to see whether these procedures delivered…

The American Medical Association CPT Editorial Panel gave two-level cervical total disc arthroplasty a Category I CPT code and revised the existing Category III CPT code to describe three or more level arthroplasty, according to a letter from North American…

An article published in the March issue of Spine examines the incidence and risk factors of adjacent segment disease requiring surgery among spinal fusion patients who underwent posterior lumbar interbody fusion and posterolateral fusion.

Ziya Gokaslan, MD, and fellows in the department of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore are translating the LevelCheck algorithm to clinical studies, according to a Johns Hopkins Medicine news release.

Providers today are focused on delivering high quality, low cost healthcare. In spine surgery, the debate over whether minimally invasive or open surgical techniques are more cost-effective depends on whether you're examining the initial episode of care or long-term costs,…

  In a retrospective study, surgeons examined the clinical outcome and risk of postoperative instability five years after microdecompression for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis using the interspinous approach and published their findings in Spine.