ROCK HILL, S.C. — After 30 years of surgeries, medications, and chronic pain, Sue Mundy is finally walking pain-free, and she credits a new robotic spine procedure at Piedmont Medical Center for ...

A pars fracture ­— also called spondylolysis — is a break in the pars interarticularis, a narrow area of bone connecting two vertebrae in the spine. It typically occurs in the lumbar spine (lower back ...

From clinical outcomes to costs, here are the key discoveries in spine surgery this year: 1. A study from Plano-based Texas Back Institute found positive clinical results for patients having hybrid ...

Minimally invasive robot-assisted pars fracture surgery enabled most adolescent patients to return to sports in as little as six weeks, researchers with New York City-based Hospital for Special ...

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa Bone & Joint has announced today that Addison Wood, DO, PhD, a spine surgeon with the organization has performed the first robotic spine surgery in Tulsa at Saint Francis Hospital ...

New generations of spine robots in the market have significant advantages compared to their predecessors, Suken Shah, MD, said. Dr. Shah, of Wilmington, Del.-based Nemours Children’s Hospital, spoke ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A children's hospital in Central Texas has become the first pediatric hospital in the world to start using a new robotic technology for spinal surgeries. Ascension's Dell Children's ...

Alan Zambeli-Ljepovic, MD, MHS, sits at the arcade-like console like a church organist. He places his feet on the machine’s pedals and slips the middle finger and thumb of each hand into delicate ...

From robotic surgery performed 7,000 miles away to the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, 2025 has been a ...