The North American Spine Society has awarded the 2013 Outstanding Paper Awards to four papers this year.
The awards include:
• Outstanding Paper: Medical and Interventional Science — Does Physical Activity Influence the Relationship Between Low Back Pain and Obesity? Led by Matthew W. Smuck, MD.
• Outstanding Paper: Value — Comparative Outcomes and Cost Utility following Surgical Treatment of Focal Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Compared With Osteoarthritis of the Hip or Knee: Part 1. Long-Term Change in Health-Related Quality of Life. Part 2. Estimated Lifetime Incremental Cost-Utility Ratios, led by Raja Y. Rampersaud, MD.
• Outstanding Paper: Surgical Science — Nerve and Recovery after Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion With and Without Bone Morphogenic Protein-2 Augmentation: A Cohort Controlled Study, led by Marios G. Lykissas, MD, PhD.
• Outstanding Paper: Surgical Science — Back Pain's Association with Vertebral Endplate Signal Changes in Sciatica, led by Abdelilah el Barzouhi, MD, MSc.
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