Spine

Morris (Ill.) Hospital & Healthcare Centers announced the addition of Mir H. Ali, MD, to its medical staff.

Should Medicare cover percutaneous image-guided lumbar decompression to treat lumbar spinal stenosis?

A group of surgeons and researchers studied 265 consecutive patients with scoliosis treated by posterior spinal fusion to examine how often postoperative images detected an implant-related complication that prompted a revision surgery, and published their results in Spine.

In the 125 years since Dr. Victor Alexander Haden Horsley performed the first laminectomy at University College London, the procedure has undergone vast improvements ranging from less invasive techniques and higher success rates, to shorter recovery times and the shift…

Star Medical Center, a surgical hospital in Plano, Texas, announced that it has named TrizCom as its agency of record.

Donald S. Corenman, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon at The Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo., has completed research on the effects of failed less invasive spine surgery on lumbar spinal fusion outcomes.

Steve J. Fineberg, MD, and Kern Singh, MD, partnered with researchers Sreeharsha Nandyala and Miguel Pelton to conduct a study on the learning curve for minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion that was published recently in The Spine Journal.

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's Spine Center in Lebanon, N.H., opened in 1997 with a mission to provide patient-centered, comprehensive, coordinated, interdisciplinary and cost-effective care.

Here are four spine surgeons on their current research focuses, as well as where reimbursements are headed.

Golisano Children's Hospital at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center has purchased the EOS machine for imaging of pediatric patients with spine conditions such as scoliosis.