AO Spine Advanced Course—Degenerative Lumbar Spine: From MIS Fusion to Complex Deformity and Revision
This advanced level course enhances knowledge and skills in order to tackle lumbar degeneration with success and increased comfort, including potential complications. The hands-on section helps participants understand and successfully plan these surgical procedures.
This course is for certified spine surgeons with more than 5 years of experience.
Why you should choose this course
Top international faculty:
Learn from world-leading experts
3 days in duration:
Intensive, efficient, hands-on learning
AO Spine flagship event:
Be part of the “Davos spirit”
Network:
Build valuable professional connections
Course content
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Course modules
- The slipped vertebra
- Nonunion
- Postoperative infection in the instrumented spine
- Debate MISS TLIF
- Sagittal alignment
- MISS for degenerative scoliosis
- Adult deformity with sagittal imbalance
- New technology demonstration
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Practical exercises – specimen lab
- MISS TLIF
- Anterior to psoas lumbar fusion
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Case discussions
- Isthmic spondylolisthesis II L5-S1
- Degenerative spondylolisthesis L4-L5
- Nonunion after single level fusion
- The infected back
- MISS TLIF
- L4-L5 misalignment
- Degenerative scoliosis
- Adult deformity
Course details may be subject to change. Please check your chosen date and location for the detailed program.
“In Davos Courses, you will be exposed to a brilliant program, practical hands-on training, use of the most innovative technologies and one to one interaction with some of the best faculty in the globe. Davos is not only the courses, it is an experience.”
Richard Bransford, AO Spine Education Commission Chair
Course impressions
Program contributors
Paul Heini
Course Chairperson
Claudius Thome
Educational Advisor
Faculty:
Christopher Ames
Christoph Albers
Roberto Bassani
Roger Härtl
Aron Lazary
Sean Molloy
Susana Nunes Pereira
Alpaslan Senkoylu
Pedro Berjano
Course Chairperson
Alpaslan Senkoylu
Educational Advisor
Faculty:
Riccardo Cecchinato
Roger Härtl
Aron Lazary
Avelino Parajon
Sean Molloy
Henri-Arthur Leroy
Marcel Ivanov