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.
Are you interested in writing for the AO Spine Guest Blog? Download the guideline here and send in your ideas by email marketing@aofoundation.org.
The articles represent the opinion of individual authors exclusively and not necessarily the opinion of AO Spine or AO Foundation.
Latest posts
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Trauma
March 30, 2026Unstable but neurologically intact: are we over-operating in spinal trauma?
BY DRS LUIZ GUSTAVO DAL OGLIO DA ROCHA, MANUEL JOSE VALENCIA CARRASCO, AND RATKO YURAC
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Career
March 24, 2026A global vision for spine surgery: insights from GSC Chairperson Jeff Wang
BY DR JEFFREY C. WANG
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Clinical practice
March 23, 2026How good is trans-Kambin TLIF with a large-footprint interbody compared to ALIF?
BY DR CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN
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Trauma
March 21, 2026Taming the challenge of osteoporotic vertebral fractures: the AO Spine–DGOU OF classification and score in modern practice
BY DRS JULIAN SCHERER, RATKO YURAC, KLAUS SCHNAKE, AND SEBASTIAN BIGDON
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Trauma
March 16, 2026Atlantoaxial instability—decision options in the modern era
BY DR MITCHELL NG AND DR GREGORY SCHROEDER
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Clinical practice
March 04, 2026Cervical sagittal alignment: why ACDF should be planned as a regional intervention
BY DR MARCO MANZETTI
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Clinical practice
February 20, 2026Innovation and fundamentals: why old-school surgery still matters
BY DR CHRISTOPHER GERBER
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Clinical practice
February 17, 2026MIS TLIF: Tips and tricks to improve lordosis and achieve solid fusion
BY DR AVELINO PARAJÓN AND DR ROGER HÄRTL
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Clinical practice
February 03, 2026Beyond the portal wars: forging a new consensus in endoscopic spine surgery
BY PROF JIN-SUNG KIM (also known as Luke Spinewalker) -
Career
January 12, 2026Artificial intelligence in scientific writing: practical support and ethical boundaries in medical and veterinary research
BY DR ANDERSON FERNANDO DE SOUZA AND DR ALFREDO GUIROY
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Clinical practice
January 08, 2026Unlocking osteoarthritis: what nearly two million genomes can teach us
BY DR DINO SAMARTZIS AND DR JASON PY CHEUNG
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Degeneration
December 11, 2025Optimizing lower lumbar lordosis and pelvic tilt in high pelvic incidence
BY DR MARKUS LOIBL AND DR PEDRO BERJANO
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