Pulsed radiofrequency with steroid injection brings sciatica relief
Researchers found that a minimally invasive procedure combined with epidural steroid injection treatment led to superior pain reduction and disability improvement over one year in…
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NuVasive and Globus Medical announce merger
Stock Image NuVasive and Globus Medical have revealed that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction. Under the terms…
Lateral single position surgery offers similar outcomes to circumferential anterior-posterior fusion, new research suggests
Aaron J. Buckland Lateral single position surgery (LSPS) and circumferential fusions have similar outcomes at two-years postoperatively, while reducing perioperative complications, improving perioperative efficiency and…
Unilateral pedicle screw fixation as effective as bilateral for TLIF, new meta-analysis finds
Stock Image Unilateral pedicle screw fixation (UPSF) is just as effective as bilateral pedicle screw fixation (BPSF) in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) and may…
Decompression alone and decompression with fusion offer similar outcomes for patients with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis
Pravesh Gadjradj There is high quality evidence showing that there is no difference in terms of functionality after decompression alone compared to decompression with fusion…
Time is spine: A paradigm shift in the management of spinal cord injury
Michael Fehlings (Toronto, Canada) talks to Spinal News International at DWG-Kongress (7–9 December 2022; Berlin, Germany) about the “dramatic shift” over the past 25 years in the…
Abbott launches Eterna spinal cord stimulation system for the treatment of chronic pain
Abbott has announced US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Eterna spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system—which the company describes as the world’s smallest…
Postoperative wound drains not recommended in some patients undergoing posterior spinal decompression and fusion
Marcelo Molina In patients undergoing primary posterior spinal decompression and fusion up to three levels for degenerative lumbar disorders, the use of postoperative drains is…
EU Commission to propose delay to MDR implementation
Stella Kyriakides Europe’s health commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, has announced that proposals to extend the transition period for the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) Medical…
Posterior surgery non-inferior to anterior surgery for cervical foraminal radiculopathy patients, new randomised trial shows
Anne Broekema Posterior cervical foraminotomy is non-inferior to anterior cervical discectomy with fusion for patients with cervical radiculopathy in relation to procedural success rate and…
Swiss parliament votes to accept US FDA-approved medical devices
The Swiss Federal Assembly has voted in favour of accepting medical devices with US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) marketing authorisation in Switzerland. A motion…
Type of cervical disc herniation on MRI does not correlate with clinical outcomes
Xiaoyu Yang In patients with cervical radiculopathy, the type and extent of disc herniation measured on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prior to surgery correlated neither…
Comment: What role does minimally invasive surgery have in treating those with spinal deformity?
Brian Fiani Brian Fiani, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York, USA), examines some of the main benefits and also limitations associated with…
Globus Medical partners with NHS to provide hospitals with surgical robotic navigation technology
The National Health Service (NHS) and Globus Medical have partnered to provide state-of-the-art robotic navigation technology for spinal surgery to NHS hospitals across the UK.…
One-year data from TOPS IDE trial show significant improvement in all PROMs
Premia Spine’s TOPS system Premia Spine recently announced the publication of one-year outcomes from the TOPS facet replacement system’s clinical trial which found that lumbar…
Spinal cord burst stimulation provides no significant benefit compared with placebo, new study finds
Sozaburo Hara and Sasha Gulati (photo by Ole Ekker) Among patients with chronic radicular pain after lumbar spine surgery, spinal cord burst stimulation, compared with…
EUROSPINE 2022: Prior knowledge of preoperative scores impacts postoperative PROMs for degenerative cervical spine patients
Pedro Valente Aguiar Degenerative cervical spine patients who are aware of their preoperative scores demonstrate better patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) than those who do not,…
Gabapentin prevents harmful structural changes in injured spinal cord of mice
Phillip Popovich (Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) The widely prescribed pain-relief drug gabapentin can prevent harmful structural changes in the injured spinal…
Editors-in-chief of major cardiovascular journals claim medical misinformation puts “lives at stake”
Joseph Hill The editors-in-chief of major cardiovascular journals—of both US and European societies—have come together to “sound the alarm” about the dangers of medical misinformation…
