Spine surgery has no shortage of new tools. Navigation can place screws with extraordinary precision. Robotics can automate parts of an operation. AI can process data that would take a surgeon hours ...

A single number has defined osteoporosis diagnosis for more than three decades: the T-score, a measure of bone mineral density taken from a DEXA scan and codified by the World Health Organization. It ...

GLP-1 medications have shifted the profile of today’s orthopedic patients. Surgeons are seeing patients arrive heavier for longer stretches of their lives, then losing significant weight rapidly ...

Orthopedic and spine surgeons have spent the last decade tightening preoperative protocols for nearly every modifiable risk factor that affects surgical outcomes: diabetes control, smoking cessation, ...

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health expanded its pediatric orthopedic outreach team in Bismarck, N.D., with the addition of Trenton Sprenkle, DO. Dr. Sprenkle, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon based ...

UT Health East Texas in Tyler expanded orthopedic care into the new UT Tyler School of Medicine Building as part of its joint venture with Brentwood, Tenn.-based Ardent Health and Austin-based The ...

Phoenix-based OrthoArizona opened a $25 million, 50,000-square-foot orthopedic center in Glendale, Ariz., Sept. 2. The facility combines musculoskeletal care, an on-site ASC, physical therapy and ...

Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health completed the first surgical procedure using Stryker’s SportSuite Vision on Apple Vision Pro. The procedure was a hip arthroscopy performed by Chad Mather, MD, an ...

Advances in minimally invasive surgery, robotics, neuro-oncology, neurotechnology and complex spine care are expanding what is possible in neurosurgery. Neurosurgeons across the country are helping ...

University of Chicago Medicine established a Section of Computational Neurosurgery Sept. 1 to combine neurosurgery, AI and data science in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disease. The ...

Spine surgery has no shortage of futuristic technology. Robots, AI, navigation and augmented reality are all moving deeper into operating rooms. But recent Becker’s conversations with spine surgeons ...

Eric Taris, MD, a hand surgeon at Appalachian Orthopedics in Johnson City, Tenn., is structuring part of his week entirely around wide-awake, local-anesthesia, no-tourniquet — known as WALANT — ...