If you’ve ever argued with a colleague about the superiority of tubular approaches or stared down a biportal setup that ...
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.
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?
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 ...
The trend toward patient-specific implants just got another big boost with this study of Medtronic’s UNiD patient-specific rods ...
Fortunately, a new study has delivered what you’ve all been craving: actual data — 52 weeks of it — on who returns to work after microdiscectomy, when they do it, and what factors help or hinder that ...
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 ...
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 ...