Researchers who had been using Fitbit data to help predict surgical outcomes have a new method to more accurately gauge how patients may recover from spine surgery. Using machine learning techniques ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...

An emerging type of minimally invasive spine surgery reduces the use of pain medication in patients' recovery compared to those who undergo other less minimally invasive spine surgery, which use ...

For decades, spine surgery has relied on some of medicine’s highest-quality research. Randomized trials. Prospective studies. Single-center investigations led by academic institutions. Those studies ...

Since Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci robot system received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the year 2000, robotic-assisted surgical systems (RAS) have indisputably led the ...

Delray Medical Center is the first hospital in Florida to perform spine surgery using a robotic-assisted platform, enhancing ...