Spine

Mark Crawford, MD, is a spine surgeon with Albuquerque, N.M.-based ABQ Health Partners. His practice focuses primarily on adult spine degeneration; he has been performing spinal fusions for 15 years.

Training for orthopedic spine and neurosurgeons has developed tremendously over the past few decades. Whereas it was once a rarity for orthopedic surgeons to undergo spine-focused fellowships, now almost all surgical spine specialists entering into the field have at least…

Leigh Valley Health Network has agreed to purchase Westfield Hospital in South Whitehall Township, Pa., and intends to convert the hospital into its Center for Orthopedic Medicine, according to a report by The Morning Call.

Spine surgeons and specialists from Hospital for Special Surgery recently developed and released testing results of a patient-derived expectations survey. The results were published in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

Spine surgeons and specialists from Hospital for Special Surgery recently developed and released testing results of a patient-derived expectations survey. The results were published in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

The global market for medical tourism, worth $10.5 billion in 2012, is expected to grow to $32.5 billion by 2019, according to a Transparency Market Research report.

A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine has yielded convincing results in support of back bracing as the first line of treatment for scoliosis patients. Bracing is not a new concept. Spine surgeons and physicians have…

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013.

Most providers are using new means to attract a broader patient base than in the past.

An article published in Spine examined which patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis had the best outcomes with surgery and non-operative treatment.