Spine

Daniel Resnick, MD, Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Research Council Director for the North American Spine Society, discussed the value of spine care at the North American Spine Society…

Keeping staff engaged and excited about their jobs is a key aspect of the success of a medical practice. Here six spine surgeon leaders discuss the challenges of keeping staff motivated and strategies they use to overcome those issues.

North American Spine announced that its minimally invasive AccuraScope procedure was featured on the nationally syndicated television show "The Doctors."

Richard Wohns, MD, JD, MBA, has performed the first two-level cervical artificial disc replacement surgery in the Northwest and one of the first in the nation, using Mobi-C Cervical Disc Prosthesis.

At the Congress of Neurological Surgeons 2013 Annual Meeting, Robert Jackson, MD, lead author of a recent study comparing cervical disc replacement outcomes and cost to spinal fusion, presented his findings, according to an article in Medscape.

A group of researchers recently examined surgical hospitalization rates for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis from 2000 to 2009 and published their results in Spine.

Mazor Robotics announced that Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville (Fla.) has acquired a second Renaissance surgical guidance system. 

Here are 18 articles on spine surgery studies and their findings within the last month.

David W. Polly, MD, gave a presentation on determining the cost-effectiveness of spine care and how to translate those findings into the language decision-makers understand at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting earlier this year.

Salim Hayek, MD, program director, Anaesthesiology Pain Medicine at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center, discusses personalizing spine patient care.