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 ...
If shoulder implants went to the gym, Shoulder Innovations, Inc. would be the one grunting under a pile of plates and still ...
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 ...
Orthopedic surgeons may soon spot a new logo on instruments and implant trays, but the products inside will feel like old friends. Advita Ortho, LLC has officially launched as a global medical device ...
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 ...