The brain (logic), heart (passion) and spine (courage) make up the anatomy of healthcare leadership in the 21st century, according to Dr. Robert Pearl, former CEO of the nation's largest physician ...

Joplin, Mo.-based Freeman Health System has become the first hospital in its region to pair Medtronic’s Mazor robotic guidance system with the Premia TOPS nonfusion spinal implant. The Mazor system ...

Although no spine innovation may become completely obsolete, some technologies won’t be needed as often over time, Vladimir Sinkov, MD, said. Dr. Sinkov, of Las Vegas-based Sinkov Spine, shared the ...

Nearly 3 in 10 adults in the United States have experienced lower back pain in any three-month period, making it the most ...

Medically reviewed by Sameena Zahoor, MDMedically reviewed by Sameena Zahoor, MD The meninges of the brain and spinal cord are three layers of membranes: the dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater ...

From the interesting advances in medicine file: An Israeli company has created small robots for spinal surgery that appear to reduce pain and complication risk for patients. Mazor Robotics’ ...

The question of whether an epidural or spinal is advisable after spinal surgery does not appear to have been studied systematically. What we know and how we practice is based on case reports, most of ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Augmedics, a pioneer in augmented reality surgical image guidance, has announced its groundbreaking xvision Spine System has been successfully used for the first time in a ...

Spinal monitoring technology: A microelectrode array with hundreds of channels is placed directly on the spinal cord during surgery to record electrical activity and construct high-resolution 2D maps ...

For decades, scientists believed that a spine with multiple segments was an exclusive feature of land-dwelling animals. But the discovery of the same anatomical feature in a 345-million-year-old eel ...