At the Spine Center's J. Lawrence Pool Memorial Research Symposium in New York City, Dr. Peter D. Angevine, the Symposium's Program Director, presented "Sagittal Alignment in Cervical Spine Surgery".

At the recent J. Lawrence Pool Memorial Research Symposium, sponsored by The Spine Center, Dr. McCormick, the Center's Director, offered some compelling insight through his presentation "Industry-Physician Relationship" during the symposium lunch break.

Dr. Alfred Ogden, of The Spine Center, delivered a presentation on "Open vs. MIS Lumbar Degenerative Disease" at the recent J. Lawrence Pool Memorial Research Symposium.

At the recent J. Lawrence Pool Memorial Research Symposium, sponsored by the CUMC Department of Neurological Surgery's Spine Center, neurosurgeons presented their work on the theme: "Management of Adult Spinal Disorders: Current Controversies and Evidence Update".  In...

According to the Boston Globe early this month, football superstar Peyton Manning just had surgery in Chicago for a pinched nerve in his neck.  While the details of his condition were not released, surgeons at our Spine Center say they routinely see patients for this kind of problem and...

Snowboarder  and Olympic hopeful Danny Davis was recently released from a Utah hospital after surgery to fix a broken vertebra.  According to the New York Times, he would have been one of four members of the US halfpipe team.  But that dream ended after he crashed an all-terrain vehicle last...

Our doctors have many accomplishments in the workplace, but today we have other types of accomplishments to share:  Last week, Dr. Christopher J. Winfree, head of our Pain Center and Peripheral Nerve Center,  got married AND Dr. Anthony L. D'Ambrosio, part of our Brain Center, Gamma Knife Center,...

Take this quiz to find out. 1. Would your mother tell you to sit up straight if she saw you working on your laptop? 2. Do you communicate with your friends from your laptop more than in real life? 3. Do your neck and shoulders ache? 4. Do you find time disappears when you are on your...

"Ardi" (short for Ardipithecus ramidus) is a fossil of one of our earliest pre-human ancestors. Most likely female, she lived 4.4 million years ago. Over the last several years a team of researchers has studied her remains and finally presented their findings to the world via Science Magazine...

Just as you can't know a person just by their photo, surgeons can't make clinical decisions based solely on X-Ray or MRI images.  Whether the images look good or bad, they have to consider the whole person. This is especially true when it comes to a degenerative disorder involving the spinal cord...