The FDA approved Surgical Theater’s Selman Surgery Rehearsal Platform, one of the only patented and approved platforms for cerebral and spine pre-surgery rehearsal, according to Today’s Medical Developments.

Five orthopedic and spine practice administrators discuss their strategies for running a successful practice.

Spine Surgery has rapidly advanced over the past few decades to include many new minimally invasive devices and procedures, revolutionizing the field. However, not all advances have been reimbursed by insurance companies, and device companies find continued challenges in bringing new ideas to the market.

Fernando Techy, MD, is a spine surgeon at the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute in Morton Grove. He is also an assistant professor of clinical orthopedics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, N.J, purchased the O-Arm imaging system with a $1 million donation from philanthropist David Bolger and became the first hospital in northern New Jersey to offer spine and brain surgery with this imaging technology, according to a Ridgewood-GlenRockPatch report.                       

Here are seven things for spinal surgeons to know for Feb. 21, 2013.

Morgan Lorio, MD, Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery Coding & Reimbursement Task Force, recently published an article discussing the current concepts in vertebral augmentation.

On April 2,Principal of Vega Healthcare Patrick Vega and Director of the Center of Brain and Spine Health at Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh, Wis., John Pracyk, MD, will give a presentation titled "A New Model of Physician Leadership, Engaging and Maximizing Collaboration" as part of the ISASS13 Pre-Course.

Raqeeb Haque, MD, is a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he is completing a fellowship in minimally invasive spine and spinal deformity with Richard Fessler, MD.

Laser Spine Institute and Marodyne Medical have developed a formal partnership to use research on low-intensity vibration technology for spine surgery applications through the LivMD device.