Here are nine spine surgeons on their favorite minimally invasive spine technology.

According to Market Research Trade, these are the top three companies in the spine market's global surgical robots sector.

Medical City Fort Worth (Texas) installed Globus Medical's ExcelsiusGPS, according to D Magazine.

San Diego-basedScripps Health brought its minimally invasive robotic surgery program to Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas (Calif.), according to the Del Mar Times.

Karlsruhe, Germany-based joimax presented the new combined 4K resolution camera and LED light source system and its fully integrated documentation and command system at the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting.

Juris Shibayama, MD, performed Middle Tennessee's first minimally invasive outpatient transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion.

A study published in Surgical Endoscopy, suggests surgeons are less likely to choose minimally invasive surgery when operating on older patients.

Phoenix-based Desert Institute for Spine Care's Anthony Yeung, MD, published the results of his study of endoscopic transforaminal of isthmic and degenerative spondylolisthesis decompression causing sciatica and back pain in the Journal of Spine.

Here are more than 95 ambulatory surgery centers that include minimally invasive spine surgery.

Spine surgery is among the costliest procedures in healthcare today, and providers across the country are examining evidence-based practices to achieve high-quality outcomes while lowering the economic burden.

Titan Medical earned the Canadian Patent "End Effector Apparatus for a Surgical Instrument."

Anthony Yeung, MD, founder of Phoenix-based Desert Institute for Spine Care, is a pioneer in endoscopic spine surgery. He developed the Yeung Endoscopic Spine System in the early 1990s and has perfected endoscopic procedures over the nearly three decades since.

Hopedale (Ill.) Medical Complex welcomed Nitin Kukkar, MD, according to the PJ Star.

Backed by strong supportive evidence, the minimally invasive spine approach continues to gain steam in 2018. Device companies are making splashes in the industry with novel MIS technologies and spine surgeons are increasingly leveraging the technique.