Highlights:
- New study offers hope for recovered motor function in patients with chronic spinal cord injury
- New algorithm decodes spine oncology treatment
- Experimental therapy restores nerve insulation damaged by autoimmune disease
- Minimally invasive TLIF procedure results in shorter hospital stay and “good results” after one year
- Varun Rimmalapudi and Jeff Buchalter criticise JAMA study on radiofrequency denervation for back pain, dubbing it “scientific fake news”
- Is 3D printing the future of spinal implants? asks Daniel Spencer, business manager at Charlton Morris
- Dimitri Filippiadis and Alexis Kelekis give a review of the current status, new developments, and old controversies with percutaneous vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty
- Profile: Charles Fisher