Advanced imaging and diagnostics are being implemented by many orthopedic surgeons and having an immediate impact on patient care. The technology has helped surgeons improve efficiency, surgical ...

Medical City Fort Worth (Texas) recently added a motion-preserving procedure for lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis, according to an Aug. 20 news release shared with Becker’s.

Powers Health and Orthopedic Specialists of Northwest Indiana opened an orthopedic ambulatory surgery center in Crown Point, Ind.  The 11,000-square-foot facility provides orthopedic and spine care ...

Orthopedic devicemaker Exactech has announced a CEO transition, appointing Aurelio Sahagun to serve in the role.  The transition will happen upon the closing of the company’s pending sale, which is ...

Spinal neurosurgeon Zayed Almadidy, MD, joined Advocate Health Neurosurgery, the program’s direector Dean Karahalios, MD, said in an Aug. 19 LinkedIn post. Dr. Almadidy will work at Advocate Lutheran ...

Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company named Ryan Martin as chief people officer, according to an Aug. 19 LinkedIn post. Mr. Martin will lead HOPCo’s people strategy from recruitment, culture and ...

Valdosta, Ga.-based SGMC Health has added Anthony D’Abarno, DO, and Rehan Dawood, DO, to its orthopedics team, according to an Aug. 19 news release.  Dr. D’Abarno specializes in total joint ...

To thrive in the outpatient landscape, spine and orthopedic ASCs should lean into three trends some surgeons say are overlooked. Note: Responses were lightly edited. Question: What’s one trend more ...

With many new spine residencies in full swing, veterans in the specialty share their advice for the next crop of physicians. Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of questions posed to spine surgeons ...

Onward Medical has received FDA approval to begin a pivotal study of its Arc-IM system, an implantable neurostimulation therapy designed to treat blood pressure instability after spinal cord injury, ...

Researchers at the Columbia-based University of Missouri found that cartilage removed during hip surgery may be viable for reuse in regenerative treatment.  The study, published in June in Archives of ...

The cost savings associated with outpatient spine surgery is likely to accelerate its adoption in ASCs, Steven Girdler, MD, said. Dr. Girdler, of Newport Beach, Calif.-based DISC Surgery Center, spoke ...