Low back pain (LBP) is common and a leading cause of disability and lost productivity
worldwide.• Acute LBP is frequently self-resolving, but recurrence is common, and a …

Study Design A retrospective study including 179 patients who underwent oblique lumbar
interbody fusion (OLIF) at one institution. Purpose To report the complications associated …

Introduction Recently, strategies aimed at optimizing provider factors have been proposed,
including regionalization of surgeries to higher volume centers, and adoption of volume …

Background context There is a lack of agreement among spine surgeons as to the best
surgical treatment modality for many degenerative lumbar diseases. Although there are …

Study Design. Retrospective review of an administrative database. Objective. To observe
New York statewide trends in lumbar spine surgery and to compare utilization of fusion …

Background context There are often multiple surgical treatment options for a spinal
pathology. In addition, there is a lack of data that define differences in surgical treatment …

Aims This study evaluated variation in the surgical treatment of stable (A1) and unstable (A2)
trochanteric hip fractures among an international group of orthopaedic surgeons, and …

Study Design. Electronic survey. Objective. To identify the surgical treatment patterns for low
back pain (LBP), among US spine surgeons. Specifically determine (1) differences in …

Bony union occurs through a physiological cascade that includes numerous mediators and
cellular elements interacting at a molecular level to exert their influence in concordance with …

Purpose Recently, strategies aimed at optimizing provider factors have been proposed,
including regionalization of surgeries to higher volume centers and adoption of volume …