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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Spine guest blogFebruary 22, 2023
Addressing the disparity between hardware and osteobiologics in degenerative spine surgery
BY PROF HANS JÖRG MEISEL AND DR ZORICA BUSER
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Spine guest blogFebruary 15, 2023
Well-known but little explored—work-related neck pain among spine surgeons hits a nerve
BY DR SAMEH ABOLFOTOUH
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Spine guest blogNovember 30, 2022
Wolf in sheep’s clothing? How to assess aggressiveness of osteoblastomas of the spine
BY DR FENG WEI
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Spine guest blogNovember 03, 2022
Single-position spine surgery: One position, a multitude of advantages
BY DR. RAYMOND HAH AND DR. RAM ALLURI -
Spine guest blogOctober 10, 2022
A neurosurgical voyage through an unprivileged world—the everyday battle and how to bring about change
BY DR ATTA UL ALEEM BHATTI -
Spine guest blogOctober 10, 2022
Unpacking 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 -
Spine guest blogOctober 06, 2022
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: Curve progression in brace patients can be predicted by curve flexibility and in-brace correction
BY DR JASON P. Y. CHEUNG -
Spine guest blogSeptember 23, 2022
Empowering young females to become spine surgeons—and what it takes to overcome the usual perceptions
BY DR SONJA HÄCKEL -
Spine guest blogJuly 06, 2022
Incidental lumbar durotomy—accidental tears in the dura mater that result in leakage of cerebral spinal fluid (part 2)
BY AO SPINE CLINICAL EXPERT ADVICE FORUM -
Spine guest blogJuly 05, 2022
Incidental lumbar durotomy—accidental tears in the dura mater that result in leakage of cerebral spinal fluid (part 1)
BY AO SPINE CLINICAL EXPERT ADVICE FORUM -
Spine guest blogJuly 04, 2022
Elderly patients benefit from minimally invasive TLIF as much as younger populations
BY GRAHAM S. GOH -
Spine guest blogJuly 04, 2022
Intraoperative neuromonitoring, a careful balance of risk—and what to do when it goes wrong?
BY DR NICOLAS DEA
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