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.

Nashville Neurosurgery Group has bought a $1.73 million medical office building in Nashville as well as three adjacent parcels of land, according to a report by The Tennessean.

A team of researchers recently published an article in Spine examining posterolateral instrumented lumbar fusion using rhBMP-2.

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013.