Spine

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.

David A. Wong, MD, past president of the North American Spine Society and current co-chairman of the NASS Value Task Force, recently moderated a panel on the value of spine care at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting.

Agostino Visioni, MD, a neurosurgeon with Annapolis-based Maryland Brain and Spine, is opening an office in La Plata, Md., according to a Southern Maryland Newspapers Online report.  

Long Island Spine Specialists in Commack, N.Y., announced the addition of Christopher Frendo, DO, to its medical staff, according to a Long Island Newsday report.