Spine

Psychological distress can have an impact on outcomes for spinal disorder treatment, and a new article in The Spine Journal has identified clinical predictors of psychological distress.

At the 2013 NASS Annual Meeting, Joseph S. Cheng, MD, MS, associate professor of neurologic surgery and orthopedic surgery and director of the neurosurgery spine program at Vanderbilt University gave a presentation titled "Who's to Blame? When Physicians Rely on…

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for today.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced that the Texas Emerging Technology Fund will invest $1.75 million in Austin-based Minimus Spine to support its non-surgical lumbar disc herniation technology, according to a KETK NBC report.

Aurora Spine announced that the first U.S. surgical implant of its ZIP ULTRA Minimally Invasive Interspinous Fusion System was performed at Southern California Hospital in Culver City.

The North American Spine Society and Alliance of Specialty Medicine made several recommendations to the Senate Finance and Ways and Means Committee as they considered changes to the sustainable growth rate, and while many were incorporated NASS still has concerns,…

The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery recently published a retrospective matched case control study examining the association between perioperative allogeneic transfusion volume and postoperative infection for lumbar spine surgery patients.

The International Association of Healthcare Professionals has selected Douglas Won, MD, to represent the orthopedic category and the state of Texas in its subsidiary — the 2013 publication "The Leading Physicians of the World."

Charlotte-based Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates announced the appointment of Mary Cloninger as CEO.

Findings from a new study published in The Spine Journal question off-label use for BMP in primary cervical spine fusions.