Tag: AAOS

Presurgical CT scan finds significant number of patients had undiagnosed osteoporosis

A study at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS; New York, USA) found that a CT scan of the lumbar spine prior to surgery...

Surgeons develop a new screening measurement for cervical stenosis in NFL...

Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons have proposed the development of a screening measurement to determine the likelihood of prospective National Football League (NFL) players suffering a...
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K2M to debut Balance ACS at AAOS 2017

K2M is to debut the Balance ACS platform at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Section on...
Patient-reported functional outcomes vary considerably after lumbar spinal fusion surgery

JAAOS article outlines guidance for hip-spine syndrome diagnosis

Many patients live with low back pain that radiates to the buttock, groin, thigh, and/or knees. The challenge for patients, and often their doctors,...