This Pillow Literally ‘Cradles’ Your Neck So You Can Sleep Without Pain — And It’s Finally On Sale

I used to wake up with a neck so stiff it could double as a coat rack. But now? I wake up refreshed, my spine aligned like a ...
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter

Innate mechanisms of spinal cord regeneration: something fishy about our spines?

On Sept. 18, Valentina Cigliola, an assistant professor from Vanderbilt University’s Department of Pharmacology, presented ...
Orthopedics This Week

The Splint Rod Surprise: When “Stiffer” Isn’t Always “Stronger” in Cervicothoracic Constructs

Posterior fixation at the cervicothoracic junction where the graceful mobility of the cervical spine meets the stubborn ...
Becker's Spine Review

The nuances of ‘unnecessary’ spine surgery

The Lown Institute reported that spine surgeries deemed “unnecessary” have cost Medicare billions of dollars but the findings don’t show the full picture, some surgeons say. Two spine surgeons share ...
IEEE

Inv-AlxVGGNets: Cervical Spine Disease Classification Using Concatenated Involutional Neural Networks With Residual Net

Abstract: Cervical spine diseases, encompassing conditions like spondylolisthesis, disc degeneration, and cervical spinal stenosis, stand as significant contributors to global disability. Precise ...
IEEE

FractalSpiNet: Fractal-Based U-Net for Automatic Segmentation of Cervical Spinal Cord and MS Lesions in MRI

Abstract: The spinal cord is an important part of the central nervous system, responsible for transmitting nerve signals throughout the body. The cervical spinal cord contains eight nerve bundles ...
Becker's Spine Review

FDA greenlights 2 Centinel Spine implants for 2-level use

Centinel Spine received FDA premarket approval Oct. 14 for two-level use of its Prodisc C Vivo and Prodisc C SK cervical disc replacement devices.  The decision is based on a 480-patient clinical ...