BACKGROUND: Chronic spinal pain is the most prevalent chronic disease with employment
of multiple modes of interventional techniques including epidural interventions. Multiple …

Background: Chronic axial spinal pain is one of the major causes of significant disability and
health care costs, with facet joints as one of the proven causes of pain. Objective: To provide …

Background: Opioid use, abuse, and adverse consequences, including death, have
escalated at an alarming rate since the 1990s. In an attempt to control opioid abuse …

BACKGROUND: Regenerative medicine is a medical subspecialty that seeks to recruit and
enhance the body's own inherent healing armamentarium in the treatment of patient …

Perioperative pain management is a unique challenge in patients undergoing spine surgery
due to the increased incidence of both pre-existing chronic pain conditions and chronic …

Study Design. A retrospective cohort study. Objective. The aim of this study was to examine
variation in spine surgery utilization between the province of Ontario and state of New York …

Here, we systematically review clinical studies that report morbidity and outcomes data for
cervical and lumbar surgeries performed in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). We focus on …

Study Design. Retrospective database review. Objective. The aim of the present study was
to examine how often spine surgery is being performed in an outpatient hospital setting …

Spine surgery is a key target for cost reduction within the United States health care system.
One possible strategy involves the transition of inpatient surgeries to the ambulatory setting …

OBJECTIVE The utilization of telemedicine in healthcare has increased dramatically during
the recent COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate the feasibility to perform …