Spine

Here are 10 recent spine surgery and interventional back pain procedures with coverage updates.

Andrew Dossett, MD, of the W.B. Carrell Clinic in Dallas, gave a presentation on lumbar fractures in sports at the 2013 North American Spine Society Annual Meeting.

Southlake-based Spine Team Texas announced the addition of orthopedic spine surgeon Leonard Kibuule, MD, as a partner.

  AO Spine North America has joined the Council of Surgical Spine Specialties as one of its founding members.

  A study recently published in Spine outlined the predictors of postoperative pain in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients.

William Schueler, MD, has joined Naperville-Ill.-based Edward Neurosciences Institute, in affiliation with the Northwestern Medical Group.

  Here are 20 articles on spine surgery studies and their findings within the last month.

  A recent examination of 103 orthopedic spine patients examined how patients view spine surgeon reimbursement. The results were published in The Spine Journal.

Antonio E. Castellvi, MD, a spine surgeon and member of the International Advocates for Spine Patients, recently passed away.

Charles L. Branch, MD, has been asked to join the editorial board of Spine Surgery Today to be launched in March 2014, according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.