AO Spine Masters Course—Complex Lumbar Spine Surgery

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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 choose this course?

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3 days in duration:

Intensive, efficient, hands-on learning

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Top international faculty:

Learn from world-leading experts

 

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AO Spine flagship event:

Be part of the “Davos spirit”

 
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Network:

Build valuable professional connections

 

Course content

  • 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

  • MISS TLIF

  • Anterior to psoas lumbar fusion 

 

  • 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
Richard Bransford

“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 

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