

Racial variations in spinal anatomy
It should be no surprise that among all of the variable phenotypes that inhabit the earth with a myriad of eye shapes, colors, facial...


Medical imaging in the 21st century
There are many diagnostic modalities available in the healthcare sector with admittedly a great geographical disparity between various...


Innovation knows no limits
Two of the most basic human features of fear and jealously are invariably the obstacles to technological progress, but ultimately their...


The cutting edge of spine-The cost of innovation
An article published February 2014 in Outpatient Surgery entitled ‘How We’re pushing the outpatient spine envelope”...


The path of the innovator
Medicine is notoriously slow to react to the introduction of new technologies into the practice of clinical medicine for a wide variety...


Minimally invasive spine surgery
MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINE SURGERY Pioneering medical innovation is not welcome with the more established sectors of the medical community...


The demise of interventional pain-The rise of minimally invasive spine surgery
The history of medicine is without question characterized by the constant of change, and none more so evidently than in the field of...


A global perspective
There is no question that as the global population becomes increasingly industrialized the incidence of spine related complaints will...


The insurance scam
The insurance industry commenced in the dingy back room of a coffee shop in the east end of London approximately three hundred years ago,...


The global implications for minimally invasive spine surgery
The evolution of minimally invasive spine surgery since the early 1990s has seen some of the most profound changes in the way healthcare...