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?

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.

PathKeeper Surgical heard the collective grumbling of orthopedic and spine surgeons everywhere — and did something about it.

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever stared at a CT scan wondering why your beautifully packed anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) hasn’t fused ...

The trend toward patient-specific implants just got another big boost with this study of Medtronic’s UNiD patient-specific rods ...

Recently published national analysis of intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) use during cervical spine surgery for degenerative cervical.

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 ...

Complications in spine surgery are messy enough without the coding chaos that follows. If you’ve ever been told your ...

Courtesey of Shoulder Innovations, Inc. If shoulder implants went to the gym, Shoulder Innovations, Inc. would be the one grunting under a pile of plates and still asking for more weight. The ...