Inspired Spine, with locations in Burnsville, Alexandria and Crookston, Minn., plans to open nationwide facilities in California and Texas in the next year, according to an April 13 news release.
Three things to know:
1. Neurosurgeon Hamid Abbasi, MD, PhD, is chief medical officer of Inspired Spine, which also includes spine surgeons Sunny Kim, MD, and Kessiena Aya, DO, according to its website.
2. The practice currently has affiliate spine surgeons in Massachusetts (Frederik Pennings, MD, PhD), Maryland (Said Osman, MD, PhD) and Texas (Jaime Gasco, MD).
3. Surgeons at Inspired Spine developed the oblique lateral lumbar interbody fusion technique, which uses a 15 millimeter incision that results in minimal blood loss and preserves muscles and the adjacent tissue, and the Trident sacroiliac joint fusion system for the treatment of sacroiliac joint disease.