Technological Advances in Spine Care

Spinal medicine is one of the most rapidly evolving specialities of surgery and of medicine. The more critical and life saving specialties seem to have evolved first. General surgery, of course, existed for decades before the vascular and cardiac surgeon evolved in the 1950s and 1960s. Hand surgery and total joint surgery was in its heyday by the early 1970s. Spine surgery did not become a recognised specialty by the Academy of Orthopedic Surgery until almost 1990.