(HealthDay)—A new model can predict the risk of medical complications, including major complications, after spine surgery, according to a study published in the Feb. 1 issue of The Spine Journal.

A new patient-specific spinal model, however, could help determine how successful such surgery will be. Led by Florida Atlantic University's Prof. Erik Engeberg and the Marcus Neuroscience ...

Wei Wu, Ph.D., assistant research professor of neurological surgery at IU School of Medicine, said the spinal cord injury model damaged ... the beneficial neural plastic changes emerge both ...

Xenco Medical, LLC announced that Dr. Nick Shamie, Prof and Chief of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery at UCLA, performed spine surgery using the first disposable, plastic surgical rasps and implant inserter.