Wildwood Orthopaedic and Spine Hospital in Sylvania Township, Ohio, is scheduled to open in early October, according to a Toledo Blade report.

Hospital for Special Surgery researchers, led by Bryan T. Kelly, MD, co-director of the Center for Hip Pain and Preservation, identified a group of patients who have increased difficulty for surgical treatment of snapping psoas, according to a hospital news release.

Prior to 1950, sacroiliac joint dysfunction was thought the predominant cause of back pain. Post-1950, physicians have been more focused on the disc as the cause for back pain, which has led to several advances in that area of spine surgery. However, the decreased awareness of sacro-iliac dysfunction has lead to cases of misdiagnosis of SI joint dysfunction as discogenic back pain or sciatica.

"There are a few different studies recently about sacroiliac joint dysfunction showing that it affects about 25 percent of adults with low back pain," says Richard Kube, MD, a spine surgeon with Prairie Spine & Pain Institute in Peoria, Ill. "Given how common sacroiliac joint dysfunction is, it's important that we make it part of the training and examination process. If we have the wrong diagnosis and do the wrong treatment, the outcome is going to be poor."

Robert Watkins, Jr., MD, orthopedic spine surgeon and co-director of Marina Spine Center at Marina Del Rey (Calif.) Hospital, discusses four points on biologics in spine surgery.

Tornier, a global extremities device company based in Amsterdam, will launch its Aequalis Ascend Convertible Shoulder System this week, according to a company news release.

Spine surgeons from the South Texas Spinal Clinic are now using NuVasive's eXtreme Lateral Interbody Fusion technology for spinal procedures, according to a practice news release.

Lateral lumbar interbody fusion, also known as extreme lateral interbody fusion, is a relatively new procedure that surgeons have found successful for treating patients with complex disorders such as spondylolisthesis and scoliosis. "Right now, I consider lateral lumbar interbody fusions to be the most successful procedure to accomplish what we set out to do in terms of surgical interventions for these complex procedures," says Frank Cammisa, MD, chief of spine service for the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. He discusses four points on the XLIF procedure.

Lawrence D. Dorr, MD, medical director of the Dorr Arthritis Institute at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, is the first surgeon in the United States to use MAKO image guidance technology to perform a total hip replacement, according to a news release.