Robotic spine surgery helped Donna Alonso overcome chronic back pain after traditional treatments failed. Learn how this ...
HILLSDALE, MI – Hillsdale Hospital has completed its first lumbar total disc replacement surgery, making it the only facility ...
The 2026 CPT code set includes several additions and updates for spine procedures. Here are seven developments to know, according to the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery: 1.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...
Spine surgery complications do not necessarily surface in the operating room. The conditions for breakdown are laid long before a patient ever reaches the table. From the outside, the work looks ...
Physicians are paid less today for many common spine procedures than they were in 2000, according to the blog of Jeffrey Binder, president and CEO of Biomet, which makes spine surgery devices. In that ...
Ascension’s Dell Children’s Medical Center North Campus is changing the future of medical procedures by becoming the first pediatric hospital in the world to provide robotic spine surgeries. “The ...
At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, Richard N.W. Wohns, MD, JD, MBA, will give a presentation titled “Comparing the Reimbursement of Spine ...
More than 90% of hospitals are overusing risky back surgeries that don't help patients with age-related pain. One unnecessary ...
A cervical foraminotomy is a procedure that decompresses a nerve in the neck. A spine surgeon removes bone or disc pieces that are pressing on the nerves that go from your neck to your arm. The ...