Spine

The North American Spine Society has sent a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee commenting on the proposed repeal and replacement of the sustainable growth rate.

A new study published in The Spine Journal compared the cost-effectiveness of total hip surgery and total knee surgery to the outcomes and cost-effectiveness of surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis.

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013.

Fort Collins, Colo.-based Orthopaedic and Spine Center of the Rockies has made a $25,000 donation to the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado to help fund flood relief efforts, according to Northern Colorado Business Report.

Shawnee Mission (Kan.) Medical Center has opened an orthopedic and spine center, according to a report by The Kansas City Star.

Physician researchers conducted a prospective randomized controlled study to determine and explain differences in dysphagia between patients undergoing artificial disc replacement and anterior cervical decompression and fusion and published the results in Spine.

There is no strong evidence to support spine surgery soon after a traumatic injury to prevent some of the secondary damage, mainly because the available study data cannot be easily compared, according to a study published in the Journal of…

Southcoast Rehabilitation Services, part of New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health System, has opened an outpatient clinic at the Southcoast Brain & Spine Center in Dartmouth, Mass., according to report by The Wareham Courier.

The Spine Health Foundation will give a presentation about spine surgery coverage at the 14th Annual International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery Conference in May 2014.

Spine surgeons at Hospital for Special Surgery evaluated neurological deficits after lateral lumbar interbody fusion for a new study published in Spine.