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Patients with traumatic cervical spine injury benefit from early surgery

March 7, 2012
Researchers at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson have shown that patients who receive surgery less than 24 hours after a traumatic cervical spine injury suffer less neural tissue destruction and improved clinical outcomes.

Sitting for long hours affects hips, spine, shoulders and the heart

February 21, 2012
You may feel productive putting in long days at the office. But while your mind is active, your body isn't. There is a growing body of research that supports the idea that, regardless of your exercise routine after hours, the more time you spend sitting each day, the higher your ...

Epidural Steroid Injections Do Not Benefit Spine Patients

February 10, 2012
Researchers at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson examined data on patients being treated for lumbar stenosis and the degenerative spine condition spondylolisthesis and found that patients who received epidural steroid injections (ESI) had a higher rate of crossover to surgery and fared worse in physical health and bodily pain versus ...

Researchers find epidural steroid injections do not benefit spine patients

February 8, 2012
Researchers at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson examined data on patients being treated for lumbar stenosis and the degenerative spine condition spondylolisthesis and found that patients who received epidural steroid injections (ESI) had a higher rate of crossover to surgery and fared worse in physical health and bodily pain versus ...

Rothman at Jefferson researchers find epidural steroid injections do not benefit spine patients

February 7, 2012
(Thomas Jefferson University) Researchers at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson examined data on patients being treated for lumbar stenosis and the degenerative spine condition spondylolisthesis and found that patients who received epidural steroid injections had a higher rate of crossover to surgery and fared worse in physical health and bodily ...

Risk Factors for Vision Loss After Spine Surgery Identified

December 29, 2011
THURSDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified six risk factors linked to blindness after spine surgery, a rare but devastating complication. Known as ischemic optic neuropathy, or ION, the complication occurs when the optic nerve located behind the eyeball is injured. It is estimated to occur in ...

Study identifies six risk factors associated with blindness after spine surgery

December 22, 2011
A study published in the January 2012 issue of Anesthesiology identified six risk factors associated with blindness or partial blindness that can occur after major spine surgery: 1) male sex, 2) obesity, 3) use of a surgical frame that places the head lower than the heart, 4) length of the ...

Mazor Robotics to purchase Renaissance system for spine surgeries

December 12, 2011
Mazor Robotics Ltd., the leader in innovative surgical robots and complementary products for spine surgery, signed an agreement for the purchase of a Renaissance system with Richard R. M. Francis, MD, of Spine Associates of Houston and the Houston Orthopedic and Spine Hospital, formerly known as Foundation Surgical Hospital, in ...

Scientists Perform First Asian Genome-Wide Association Study On Spine Disease

December 6, 2011
Singapore and China scientists, headed by Dr Liu Jianjun, Senior Group Leader and Associate Director of Human Genetics at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Dr Gu Jieruo, a rheumatologist at the 3rd Affiliated Hospital of the Sun Yat-Sen University, have identified new genes that are associated with the ...

Scientists perform first Asian genome-wide association study on spine disease

December 5, 2011
Singapore and China scientists, headed by Dr Liu Jianjun, Senior Group Leader and Associate Director of Human Genetics at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Dr Gu Jieruo, a rheumatologist at the 3rd Affiliated Hospital of the Sun Yat-Sen University, have identified new genes that are associated with the ...

Singapore and China scientists perform first Asian genome-wide association study on spine disease

December 5, 2011
Singapore and China scientists, headed by Dr Liu Jianjun, Senior Group Leader and Associate Director of Human Genetics at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Dr Gu Jieruo, a rheumatologist at the 3rd Affiliated Hospital of the Sun Yat-Sen University, have identified new genes that are associated with the ...

Surgical Leaders Announce Creation Of Collaborative Spine Research Foundation To Fund Spine-Care Research

November 19, 2011
Two flagship foundations for advancing spine care through support for research, the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF), announced today a collaborative grant program that will broadly cultivate multidisciplinary clinical spine research. OREF, formed in 1955 by members of three national orthopaedic ...