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The State of Outpatient Spine Surgery in 4 Studies
Outpatient spine surgery is growing, and its outlook suggests the trend will likely continue. Here are four studies illustrating the state of outpatient spine surgery and where it's headed.
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ADR Spine Announces the Inclusion of Four Surgeons to Its National Top Doctors in Arthroplasty Program
ADR Spine Welcomes Elite Physicians to Top Doctors in Arthroplasty Program
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Jason M. Cuéllar Featured on Health News Today
Get to know Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Jason M. Cuéllar, who serves patients in Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens, and Miami, Florida.
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Introducing the ADR Spine Top Doctors in Arthroplasty Program: Pioneering the Future of Spinal Health
Dr. Todd H. Lanman is pleased to announce the official launch of the ADR Spine Top Doctors in Arthroplasty Program, a groundbreaking initiative designed to connect patients with the most skilled and experienced artificial disc replacement surgeons in their area.
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Spine Surgeon Leader To Know: Dr. Jason Cuellar
Jason Cuellar, MD, PhD, is a spine surgeon practicing in Beverly Hills, Calif., and Los Angeles.
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Dr. Cuéllar Featured in Modern Luxury Palm Beach
Leading the field of artificial disc replacement surgery — a world expert in the treatment of neck and back pain without fusion. A spine in motion should stay in motion!
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Advanced Spinal Reconstruction Procedure Available in South Florida
Dr. Jason M. Cuéllar, a Board Certified and Fellowship Trained Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, and one of the nation’s leaders in Motion Preservation and Minimally Invasive spine surgery, is now performing Lumbar Total Disc Replacement (TDR) procedures in the South Florida region.
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30+ Spine Surgeons Performing Artificial Disc Replacement | 2023
Dr. Cuellar's practice includes artificial disc replacement, regenerative medicine and biologic injections. He is an artificial disc replacement patient himself and had the procedure done in 2019.
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Dr. Cuéllar Featured in Modern Luxury
Do you have degenerative disc disease in your neck? Synergy Spine Solutions is conducting a clinical trial for people with single level cervical degenerative disc disease.
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Drs. Todd H. Lanman and Jason M. Cuellar Become First Surgeons in the U.S. to Perform 3-Level ADR With Prodisc® C Vivo
Dr. Cuellar of ADR Spine performed the first 3-level disc replacement using ProDisc Vivo.
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Anterior Cervical Foraminotomy for Radiculopathy After Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement: Technique Description and Case Report
Dr. Cuellar and colleagues have just published a research paper in the International Journal of Spine Surgery describing the technique of bone spur removal (anterior cervical foraminotomy) next to an artificial disc without removal of the implant.
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Text Neck, Pinkie Pain and Other Ways Phones Can Wreck Our Bodies
Dr. Cuellar was recently featured in a New York Times article about how cell phone use can affect the neck.
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Outpatient Versus Inpatient Anterior Lumbar Spine Surgery:A Multisite, Comparative Analysis of Patient Safety
A new paper published in the International Journal of Spine Surgery by Dr. Cuellar and colleagues demonstrates the safety of outpatient anterior lumbar spine surgery, such as artificial disc replacement surgery. This enables patients to go home and start their recovery the same day!
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Single and Multilevel Lumbar Total Disc Replacement Adjacent to L5-S1 ALIF (Lumbar Hybrid): 6 Years of Follow-up
A new paper published in the International Journal of Spine Surgery by Dr. Cuellar and colleagues demonstrates lasting good outcomes in motion preservation spinal surgery when combining total disc replacement of the lumbar spine with fusion at L5-S1, aka lumbar hybrid surgery.
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2021 Position Statement From the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery on Cervical and Lumbar Disc Replacement
The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery (ISASS) has recently published their strong support for total disc replacement in the spine, citing the now strong and ever growing mass of evidence demonstrating it's superiority to fusion.
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Are Robots for Spine Surgery Worth the Cost?
Drs. Cuellar and Lanman discuss their use and the future of robotic spine surgery.
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Low Complication Rate of Anterior Lumbar Spine Surgery in an Ambulatory Surgery Center
Drs. Cuellar, Wagner and Rasouli published the first report demonstrating the safety of anterior lumbar spine surgery (for example lumbar total disc replacement) performed in outpatient surgery centers.
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Restoration of Spinal Motion: Conversion of Anterior Cervical Fusion With Pseudarthrosis to Artificial Disc Replacement
Drs.Cuellar and Lanman just published the first description in the medical literature describing the restoration of motion in the cervical spine (neck) by reversing a previously fused spinal segment and converting it to an artificial disc replacement.
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Lanman Spinal Neurosurgery Opens Up 2-Level prodisc®Cervical SK and Vivo Clinical Trial in Los Angeles
Dr. Cuellar just published a study in the journal Spine with partner Dr Lanman and colleague Dr Rasouli, demonstrating the safety of performing cervical artificial disc replacement in outpatient surgery centers. The study found an extremely low rate of complications and post-surgical hospital admissions....
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Centinel Spine Announces FDA Approval for Two-level prodisc® L Total Disc Replacement
Today we have received some news we have been waiting years for - the FDA has given their approval to perform two level total disc replacement surgery in the lumbar spine using the ProDisc (Centinel Spine).
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Lanman Spinal Neurosurgery Opens Up 2-Level prodisc®Cervical SK and Vivo Clinical Trial in Los Angeles
Dr. Lanman and Cuellar start enrolling patients for the FDA trial of the new ProDisc-SK and ProDisc-Vivo, 2 of the most popular artificial disc replacement implants used in Europe.
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FDA Approves New Device to Help Disc Pain Sufferers
Dr Cuéllar’s partner Dr. Lanman on CBS news speaking about the recent approval of the M6 cervical artificial disc replacement.
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First-ever two-level M6 procedure performed in the USA
Drs. Cuellar and Lanman perform the first M6 artificial cervical disc replacement in California and the first two-level implantation in the U.S.
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10 Things To Know About Spinal Disc Replacement
Our patients are expecting to be more physically active at greater ages than in prior generations. Motion-preservation devices will allow spine surgeons to improve patients while taking into consideration the long-term health of the spine, reducing rates of future surgery caused by adjacent-segment failure.
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Cannabinoids Can Serve as Alternatives to Narcotic Pain Medication for Fracture Healing
An article published in the journal AAOS Now discusses how Cannabinoids can serve as alternatives to narcotic pain medications for fracture healing pain, neuropathic pain and chronic pain, and may benefit anxiety and other health ailments.
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FDA approval for M6-C artificial cervical disc
The M6 cervical artificial disc has just gained FDA-approval to be used in the United States! And our site (Dr. Todd Lanman and myself) has been chosen as the first site to be able to use the disc in our patients.
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Progression of Adjacent-level Degeneration After Lumbar Total Disc Replacement: Results of a Post-hoc Analysis of Patients With Available Radiographs From a Prospective Study With 5-year Follow-up
Dr. Zigler and colleagues published a study in the journal Spine reporting that patients have much lower rates of adjacent-segment degeneration 5 years after lumbar artificial disc replacement compared to fusion.
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Multiple-Level Lumbar Total Disk Replacement
Dr. Cuellar and colleagues Dr. Rasouli and Delamarter published a new study reporting on the results of multi-level lumbar total disc replacement from 2 to 6 years after implantation. The study reports excellent results both clinically and radiographic range of motion maintenance.
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Concurrent Use of Lumbar Total Disc Arthroplasty and Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: The Lumbar Hybrid Procedure for the Treatment of Multilevel Symptomatic Degenerative Disc Disease
A study published by Dr. Matthew Scott-Young and colleagues in the journal Spine this month reported great results following the lumbar “hybrid” procedure whereby the L5-S1 level is fused in combination with an artificial disc replacement at the L4-5 level. This was a large study of 617 patients with...
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Motion preservation following total lumbar disc replacement at the lumbosacral junction: a prospective long-term clinical and radiographic investigation
A prospective clinical study was published in the The Spine Journal demonstrating long-term preservation of motion after artificial disc replacement at the L5-S1 level.
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Clinical Outcomes of Outpatient Cervical Total Disc Replacement Compared With Outpatient Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
A study published this month in the journal Spine confirms what we have known for quite some time now - that artificial disc replacement is effective and safe when done in the outpatient surgery center
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Could phones change the way our spines curve? Scientists warn an entire generation is plagued by 'text neck'
Dr. Cuéllar and partner Dr. Lanman published an article about what they called the “text neck” epidemic as a result of modern cell phone use.
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7-Year Outcome Finds Two-Level Cervical Disc Replacement Statistically Superior Option in Treating Disc Disease in New Journal of of Neurosurgery Paper by Dr. Todd Lanman
Dr. Cuéllar’s partner Dr. Lanman was the lead author on the most recent and most convincing data demonstrating that two-level artificial disc replacement is better than two-level fusion for cervical disc disease. The 7-year data of the randomized controlled trial using the Medtronic Prestige LP disc...
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Leading Spine Surgeon Talks Protecting Spine During Tennis
World Tennis Magazine article regarding back pain and spine issues in tennis players by Dr. Todd Lanman.
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Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy A Review of Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment
Dr. Cuéllar discusses cervical myelopathy caused by cervical spinal stenosis and its various treatments, including by laminoplasty, in a review article published this month.
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Intradiscal Injection of an Autologous Alpha-2- Macroglobulin (A2M) Concentrate Alleviates Back Pain in FAC-Positive Patients
Recent research published by Drs. Cuéllar, Montesano and Scuderi shows that injection of the super molecule A2M (APIC) may be beneficial for the treatment of back pain from lumbar disc degeneration.
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Texting on mobile phones and musculoskeletal disorders in young adults: A five-year cohort study
Texting on mobile phones recently shown to be associated with neck and upper back pain. This well-done, 5-year cohort study performed in Sweden by Gustafsson et al demonstrates that poor posture during cell phone texting may have both short-term and long-term detrimental effects on your neck and back.
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Cytokines in the Intervertebral Discs of Patients Undergoing Lumbar Discectomy and Fusion for Degenerative Disc Disease
Drs. Cuéllar and Montesano published a study demonstrating multiple inflammatory cytokines present within the disc space of patients with back pain compared to normal discs.
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Beverly Hills Neurosurgeon Warns ‘Text Neck’ Could Cause Serious Damage
Avoid “Text-Neck”! My partner Dr. Todd Lanman was recently featured on the news describing how the bent-forward neck position that is commonly used while texting can be dangerous to your spine.
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Does provocative discography cause clinically important injury to the lumbar intervertebral disc? A 10-year matched cohort study
Research published by Drs. Cuéllar et al provides strong evidence that discography may be cause more harm than good.
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