Do you suffer from back pain? You are not alone! Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on low back pain, the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to missed work, not to mention general life disruption. Back pain, the...
Do you suffer from painful feet? Is the pain especially in your heels when getting out of bed in the morning? You might have plantar fasciitis, a painful condition that affects the heels of the feet. Heel pain is one of the most common clinical conditions...
Dr. Jonathan Lewin was invited to the global headquarters of Mazor Robotics, Ltd. in Caesarea Park, Israel on October 19, 2016. The headquarters are home of the Renaissance® Guidance System and the new MazorXTM Surgical Assurance Platform. [caption id="attachment_1915" align="alignright" width="323"] Among the executives with whom...
The Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders Performs First-of-Its-Kind Surgery in the U.S. There’s nothing more painful than a spine fracture. At The Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders (CMD), we know that from experience, treating our patients. Recently, our practice used the latest and best in modern technology to...
Patients Now Offered Major Advancement in Spine Surgery ENGLEWOOD, NEW JERSEY (September 27, 2016) - The Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders (CMD) is proud to announce it has acquired a robotic surgery system from Mazor Robotics, making CMD the first independent private practice in the northeast to...
The use of robotics in the medical field has been gaining ground over the last 10 years. Presently, in particular in spine surgery, its greatest use appears to be in the application of screws. Traditionally, this has been done using an open-handed technique, in which...
Dear Readers, Recently, we wrote an article concerning the advancement of robotics in the State of New Jersey. Within this article we gave a broad overview in terms of its application towards spine surgery. This has generated significant interest both within our community, and beyond. It...
In April 2016, world-renowned singer Prince was found dead at age 57 in his Paisley Park recording studio. An autopsy showed he had overdosed on a commonly used opioid for pain management, which he took for chronic hip pain from years of performing onstage. About 1.5...
“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” That was defense attorney Johnnie Cochran from his famed jury summation in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1995, also called the “trial of the century.” Cochran was referring to the fact that Simpson struggled during the trial...