Spine News

Published results showed a substantial amount of health and economic outcomes of musculoskeletal disorders may be attributable to high BMI.

Published results showed interlaminar percutaneous endoscopic pars decompression may be safe and successful among patients with stable lumbar spondylolysis and nerve root compression.

Cost savings and a smaller environmental footprint may be achieved by hospitals and health care systems that implement key OR quality improvement strategies, according to a review of quality improvement initiatives and interventions.

Results showed patients who had a length of stay of less than 45 hours following anterior lumbar interbody fusion demonstrated greater minimum clinically important difference achievement for several patient-reported and functional outcomes.

According to published results, skip anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion is safe and effective for patients with cervical pathology who require multilevel cervical decompression and correction of cervical alignment.

Compared with nonsurgical treatment, surgical treatment of Medicare patients with single-level lumbar stenosis was associated with lower mortality rates and costs at 2 years, according to published results.

Published results showed use of a prediction rule may help identify patients with upper limb functional recovery after traumatic cervical spinal cord injury.

The AMA has accepted the addition of a new category I CPT code for second-level lumbar total disc replacement procedures, according to a press release.

KOLOA, Hawaii — Felix H. “Buddy” Savoie III, MD, and Anthony A. Romeo, MD, spoke about the importance of leadership and service in the profession of orthopedics.

A computer vision detector with a support vector machine classifier more accurately and efficiently identified posterior thoracolumbar hardware at five-level classification compared with surgeons and manufacturer representatives.