A new study published in the Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy sheds new light on the important forces that effect the shoulder and elbow of baseball players. Dr. Evan Johnson, physical therapist at the Spine Center, has treated a number of major league pitchers for shoulder and spine injuries. He says,

Vivian Salazar, secretary to Dr. Michael Kaiser in the Spine Center, has joined the Columbia Neurosurgery Team and will be walking with us this May in the American Heart Association's 2011 Start! Wall Street Run & Heart Walk. Vivian will be walking for her mother. "She has suffered from so...

Dr.Paul C. McCormick, head of the Spine Center, will be sworn in as the new President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) this week at the Colorado Convention Center during their 79th Annual Scientific Meeting. In addition to taking on this new mantle, Dr....

Dr. Michael Kaiser from the Spine Center has recruited his family to join him for the American Heart Association's 2011 Start! Wall Street Run & Heart Walk this May. Here is what he had to say about it...

Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans according to the American Heart Association, and once again they are holding their annual Heart Walk fundraiser to fight this deadly disease. Our Department is joining the fight this year and putting a team together (Columbia Neurosurgery) to...

This new website of ours has been up for a whole year now and the feedback has been terrific.  We have published over one hundred blog posts and more than two hundred articles in that time.  Our patients have been telling us that they love our new site and enjoy reading the articles. We have...

Our condolences go out to Marci Faber and her family. She suffered a rare and terrible tragedy described in the recent front page New York Times article A Pinpoint Beam Strays Invisibly, Harming Instead of Healing. Her story is a reminder to everyone that radiosurgery is serious business.  We here...

Amazingly, surgeons can take bone from one part of the body and place it in another and it will grow there. Bone is one of the only tissues in our body that can regenerate in this way. Spine surgeons often make use of this natural phenomenon to perform a spinal fusion. That is, they use the natural growing powers of bone to stabilize a segment of the spine...

Earlier this year, startling reports surfaced that Phil Collins had lost the ability to play the drums because of dislocated vertebrae in his neck that required surgery. Physical Therapist, Dr. Evan Johnson from the Spine Center talks about the unique challenges that musicians and performing artists...

We are so pleased to announce that we have added three new neurosurgeons to our team! They are Gaetan Moise, MD, Dorothea Strozyk, MD, and Timothy Link, MD and they will be among our New Jersey Affiliates. Dr. Gaetan Moise joined our Ridgewood New Jersey Office on August first. Dr. Moise has a...