Spine Journal

Surgery

Higher ASA class not tied to 30-day morbidity in spinal surgery

(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing single-level elective anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (SLE-ACDF), higher American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) classification is not associated with 30-day morbidity, according ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Teleradiology aids in assessment of thoracolumbar spine fractures

(HealthDay)—Video clips of computed tomography (CT) scans can be captured by smartphone and transmitted to surgeons' personal smartphones for reliable diagnosis, classification, and proposed treatment of thoracolumbar spine ...

Overweight & Obesity

Obesity not linked to low back pain in twin study

(HealthDay)—Obesity-related measures are not associated with the risk of developing chronic low-back pain (LBP) after accounting for genetic factors, according to a study published in the February issue of The Spine Journal.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Basivertebral nerve ablation beneficial for chronic back pain

(HealthDay)—For patients with chronic lumbar back pain, ablation of the basivertebral nerve (BVN) improves self-reported outcome at three months and through one year, according to a study published in the February issue ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Spinal manipulation Tx benefits older adults with neck pain

(HealthDay)—For older adults with chronic mechanical neck pain, spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) plus home exercise and advice (HEA) results in better clinical outcomes and lower costs versus supervised rehabilitative ...

Surgery

Many spinal manipulation trials don't report adverse events

(HealthDay)—Many randomized clinical trials (RCTs) involving spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) do not report adverse events, although there has been an increase in such reporting since publication of the 2010 Consolidated ...

Health

Facet utilization up from 2000 to 2006, plateaued to 2012

(HealthDay)—Bundling of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for facet injections with image guidance and limiting billing to a maximum of three levels, implemented in 2010, correlated with a large decrease in ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Spinal manipulation offers little low back pain disability relief

(HealthDay)—Spinal manipulative therapy reduces disability from low back pain (LBP) more than functional technique, but not in a clinically meaningful way, according to a study published in the March issue of The Spine ...

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