Dr. Kern Singh, co-director of the Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush Minimally Invasive Spine Institute, was recently invited to serve as keynote speaker at the Minimally Invasive Spine Society meeting in Tokyo, Japan.    

NuVasive dominates the lateral spine market with Medtronic being a distant second. Kern Singh, MD, and his colleagues with Avaz Surgical are trying to level the playing field with new technology focused on quantitative imaging. The Next generation of Neuromonitoring technologyCurrent EMG-based neural monitoring technology has limitations. Patient comorbidities and anesthetic agents affect EMG monitoring

Defined as persistent back or leg pain following back surgery, failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) is a broadly defined disorder that negatively affects thousands of patients each year and a problem that spine surgeons seem to address more regularly than ever before. There is no equivalent term for a condition like failed back surgery syndrome

Becker’s Spine Review recently asked spine surgeons, “Which innovations have changed the way spine care is delivered?” See their answers, and those of their colleagues nationwide, in this recent feature. Kern Singh, M.D., Minimally Invasive Spine Institute, Chicago: “Without a doubt the three biggest innovations in my spinal career over the last 10 years have

Dr. Kern Singh, Co-Director of the Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush Minimally Invasive Spine Institute, was among the 20 spine surgeons who received the Spine Surgeon Leadership Award in 2015 from Becker’s Healthcare. The recipients were selected for their outstanding contributions to the field of spine medicine. See the full list at Becker’s Spine Review.

Online platforms and electronic medical records are making a huge impact on healthcare. Health IT is an essential part of the evolving practice, and spine surgeons are seeing the impact. Here are five observations on how health IT is changing spine care from Kern Singh, MD, co-founder of the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute at Rush

Dr. Kern Singh, co-director of the Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush Minimally Invasive Spine Institute, was featured in an Orthopedics Today story about outpatient spine surgery. In it, he discusses the two aspects he feels are driving more outpatient spine surgery – the high patient demand for a quick return to function and the need for lower costs

In August 2013, the Physician Payment Sunshine Act went into effect, meaning industry interactions with physicians were recorded and published online. The first set of interactions published on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website were in September 2014, leading some physicians to think twice about how they relate to device companies. Read the