AO Spine Guest Blog
A front-seat view to an evolving global spine world
Welcome to the AO Spine blog! The AO Spine Guest Blog highlights diverse views and perspectives from the spine community around the world. It supports our mission to share knowledge and improve patient care by showcasing experiences, controversies, and learnings from our community.
Topics are related to all aspects of spine care and spine surgeons' lives. The articles represent the opinion of individual authors exclusively and not necessarily the opinion of AO Spine or AO Foundation.
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Latest posts
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Clinical practice
August 02, 2023AO Spine and the PRAXIS Institute release new clinical practice guidelines for acute spinal cord injury (SCI)
BY BRIAN KWON, MICHAEL FEHLINGS, LINDSAY TETREAULT, AND NATHAN EVANIEW
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Clinical practice
July 06, 2023Re-thinking pain management—why orthopedic surgeons have a role to play in battling the opioid crisis
BY IAIN MCFAYDEN, MILTON LITTLE AND SAMIR MEHTA
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Clinical practice
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Degeneration
April 24, 2023Re-evaluating established principles—should decompression replace fusion as the go-to for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis?
BY DR STIPE ĆORLUKA
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Degeneration
April 19, 2023An award-winning approach to timely diagnosis of degenerative cervical myelopathy—and why it matters
BY DR MICHAEL G. FEHLINGS
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Degeneration
April 19, 2023Osteoporosis: The Silent Killer
BY ROBERT MCGUIRE, MARTIN STODDART, JUERG GASSER, AN SERMON, AND BOYKO GUEORGUIEV
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Degeneration
February 22, 2023Addressing the disparity between hardware and osteobiologics in degenerative spine surgery
BY PROF HANS JÖRG MEISEL AND DR ZORICA BUSER
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Career
February 15, 2023Well-known but little explored—work-related neck pain among spine surgeons hits a nerve
BY DR SAMEH ABOLFOTOUH
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Tumor
November 30, 2022Wolf in sheep’s clothing? How to assess aggressiveness of osteoblastomas of the spine
BY DR FENG WEI
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Clinical practice
November 03, 2022Single-position spine surgery: One position, a multitude of advantages
BY DR. RAYMOND HAH AND DR. RAM ALLURI -
Career
October 10, 2022A neurosurgical voyage through an unprivileged world—the everyday battle and how to bring about change
BY DR ATTA UL ALEEM BHATTI -
Trauma
October 10, 2022Unpacking the differing approaches to thoracolumbar burst fractures treatment on the two sides of the Atlantic—from controversy to consensus?
BY DR KLAUS SCHNAKE AND DR GREGORY SCHROEDER
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