Spine

A study recently published in Spine found that reoperation rate is significantly less among patients undergoing total disc replacement than anterior cervical fusion.

At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine & Pain Managemea roundtable of ambulatory surgery center industry experts discussed orthopedic, spine and pain management practice defining issues.

The North American Spine Society released a statement responding to the Yale Open Data Access Project that published two studies in the Annals of Internal Medicine showing lower degrees of efficacy and higher rates of adverse effects with the use…

Michael Gordon, MD, board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon, practices with Hoag Orthopedic Institute in Irvine, Calif. Dr. Gordon earned his medical degree from the Joan Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York. He interned at Mount Sinai…

On Tuesday, June 19, Christopher R. Good, MD, a spinal specialist from the Virginia Spine Institute in Reston, Va., performed the first sacroiliac fusion surgery guided by a robot on a patient.

Harry Herkowitz, chairman of the Department of Orthopedics at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., passed away on June 7. He was 65 years old.

At the 11th Annual Spine, Orthopedic & Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference on June 14, John Newman, senior vice president and general counsel for Constitutional Surgical Centers, talked about recovery care services for orthopedic ASCs.

The newest issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine contains two studies evaluating the safety and effectiveness of Medtronic's recombinant human bone morphogenic protein, Infuse, in spinal fusion surgery.

TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center, located in Smyrna, Tenn., has been named a Blue Distinction Center.

Minimally invasive spine surgery has been rapidly evolving for decades, and the resurgence of the attempt to perform more appropriately invasive surgical techniques will continue to develop.