After 30 years of surgeries, medications, and chronic pain, Sue Mundy is finally walking pain-free, and she credits a new robotic spine procedure at Piedmont Medical Center for giving her life back.

Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) announced today that it received FDA clearance for its Stealth AXiS robotic system for spine surgery.

A pars fracture ­— also called spondylolysis — is a break in the pars interarticularis, a narrow area of bone connecting two vertebrae in the spine. It typically occurs in the lumbar spine (lower back ...

Minimally invasive robot-assisted pars fracture surgery enabled most adolescent patients to return to sports in as little as six weeks, researchers with New York City-based Hospital for Special ...

New generations of spine robots in the market have significant advantages compared to their predecessors, Suken Shah, MD, said. Dr. Shah, of Wilmington, Del.-based Nemours Children’s Hospital, spoke ...

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa Bone & Joint has announced today that Addison Wood, DO, PhD, a spine surgeon with the organization has performed the first robotic spine surgery in Tulsa at Saint Francis Hospital ...

Drs. Hemil Maniar and Kelli Crabtree-Wilson are two LMH surgeons who use the Mazor robotic guidance system, which helps surgeons navigate spine procedures. From an early age, Dr. Kelli Crabtree-Wilson ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A children's hospital in Central Texas has become the first pediatric hospital in the world to start using a new robotic technology for spinal surgeries. Ascension's Dell Children's ...

New robot technology for "keyhole" spinal surgery will increase accuracy and improve outcomes for patients, hospital bosses said. James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough said it will be the ...

A robot has performed realistic surgery on its own with 100% accuracy, researchers have said. In a “major leap” towards using more robots in operating theatres, a machine trained on the videos of ...

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