Spine

A study published in a recent issue of Spine examines the cost-effectiveness of initiating rehabilitation for spine patients six weeks after surgery instead of the customary 12 weeks.

A study published in the September 2013 issue of Spine Deformity, researchers examined the current rate of postoperative surgical site infections in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis cases.

Geisinger Health System Neurosciences Institute announced it will host a comparative effectiveness research conference in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14.

Because spine surgery can produce smoke-filled operating rooms, surgeons need to unite with their operating room teams to petition, if not demand, that administrators develop policy that supports efficient smoke evacuation.

Alan Moskowitz, MD, a spine surgeon practicing with Kansas Orthopaedic Center in Wichita, will travel to Peru to provide medical care to under-served populations, according to a Wichita Business Journal report.

University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center has named James C. Metcalf Jr., MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery and announced that he will provide care at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, N.Y.

At the North American Spine Society 28th Annual Meeting earlier this month, several spine surgeons gathered to discuss the current controversies with minimally invasive lumbar fusion and whether to adopt it for their practices.

Four spine surgeons discuss the steps they take to increase patient satisfaction.

Here are eight things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.

Spine surgeons and researchers recently studied patients who underwent cervical laminoplasty and posterior cervical laminectomy and fusion for cervical spondylotic myelopathy to compare costs and published the results in the International Journal of Spine Surgery.