Study Design: This was a prospective cohort study. Objective: The objective of this study
was to design and test a novel spine neurological examination adapted for telemedicine. …

Background Acute spinal cord injury (ASCI) is a devastating event that can have a profound
impact on the lives of patients and their families. While no definitive medical treatment exists, …

Background: Currently, no studies have assessed what effect the presence of both anxiety
and depression may have on patient-reported outcome measurements (PROMs) compared to …

Study Design. Retrospective cohort review. Objective. The objective of this study was to
identify depression using the Mental Component Score (MCS-12) of the Short Form-12 (SF-12) …

Purpose of Review Particularly common in collision sports such as American football or rugby,
stingers are a traumatic transient neuropraxia of a cervical nerve root(s) or brachial plexus …

Objective: Spinal decompression with or without fusion is one of the most commonly
performed procedures in spine surgery. However, there is limited evidence on the effect of …

The threshold for statistical significance is determined by the maximum allowable probability
of Type I error (α). For studies that test multiple hypotheses or make multiple comparisons, …

Study Design. Retrospective study. Objective. The aim of this study was to determine risk
factors for prolonged opioid use and to investigate whether opioid-tolerance affects patient-…

Objective To determine whether operative duration of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
(ACDF) significantly affects patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) 90 days after …

Study design: Retrospective comparative study. Objective: Whereas smoking has been
shown to affect the fusion rates for patients undergoing an anterior cervical discectomy and …