Many people ignore early back and neck pain until it worsens into serious spine disorders, experts warn. Conditions like disc ...

Christopher Shaffrey, MD, has seen spine care evolve through rapid innovation.  But as outcomes and complication rates face greater scrutiny, the chief of the spine division at Durham, N.C.-based Duke ...

Here are four studies illustrating the state of outpatient spine surgery and where it’s headed. 1. Outpatient spine procedures grew among Medicare patients between 2010 and 2021, with significant ...

Awake spine surgery has largely been limited to shorter, simpler procedures, but Stanley Hoang, MD, of Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport, La., has leveraged the technique in new ways. Dr. Hoang, who ...

Building a top-notch spine surgery fellowship takes time, but this surgeon is looking to set a new standard for how fellowships train young surgeons. Ronjon Paul, MD, a spine surgeon who joined ...

As spine surgery steadily moves toward outpatient settings, the factors limiting broader adoption are no longer primarily clinical. Advances in surgical technique, anesthesia and pain management have ...

In the field of spinal surgery, the advent of numerous minimally invasive techniques has facilitated the implementation of ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (Jan. 25, 2023) – Brooke Army Medical Center is now using a robotic guidance system for spinal surgery that’s decreasing post-surgery pain and recovery ...

Addressing advancements in brain surgery, the speakers highlighted how navigation-guided and endoscopic techniques allow ...

VB Spine plans the initial SpineHawk release to include visualisation-capable instruments and a high-definition camera ...