Grab your loupes and your favorite coffee mug — it is time to head into the world of metastatic spine disease.
If you’ve ever wondered which patients are quietly draining your bundled payment margins while you’re busy decompressing their nerve roots, this study has news for you: it’s the severely obese ones.
If you’ve ever argued with a colleague about the superiority of tubular approaches or stared down a biportal setup that ...
Doc, my back hurts…and I can’t sleep!” But what if the real sleep killer isn’t the pain…but what the pain does to your patient’s daily life?
A novel cartilage repair technology that has been quietly expanding outside the U.S., was given the podium at the just completed 18th ICRS World Congress in Boston and the results — 92% of treated ...
PathKeeper Surgical heard the collective grumbling of orthopedic and spine surgeons everywhere — and did something about it.
Chronic back pain patients with zero prior surgery are responding at very significant levels to the new toy in the toolbox: Evoked compound action potential (ECAP) — controlled closed-loop spinal cord ...
Recently published national analysis of intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) use during cervical spine surgery for degenerative cervical.
The trend toward patient-specific implants just got another big boost with this study of Medtronic’s UNiD patient-specific rods ...
So along come three delirium risk tools — DRAS (Delirium Risk Assessment Score), DRAT (Delirium Risk Assessment Tool), and DEAR (Delirium Elderly At-Risk) — each promising to predict who’s at risk ...
If you’ve ever stared at a CT scan wondering why your beautifully packed anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) hasn’t fused — and resisted the urge to blame “the patient’s biology” yet again — this ...
With the end of Certificate of Need restrictions in North Carolina, OrthoCarolina is stepping into a new era — one where outpatient orthopedic surgery can expand not according to bureaucracy, but ...