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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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 -
Deformity
October 06, 2022Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: Curve progression in brace patients can be predicted by curve flexibility and in-brace correction
BY DR JASON P. Y. CHEUNG -
Career
September 23, 2022Empowering young females to become spine surgeons—and what it takes to overcome the usual perceptions
BY DR SONJA HÄCKEL -
Clinical practice
July 06, 2022Incidental 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 -
Clinical practice
July 05, 2022Incidental 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 -
Innovation
July 04, 2022Elderly patients benefit from minimally invasive TLIF as much as younger populations
BY GRAHAM S. GOH -
Innovation
July 04, 2022Intraoperative neuromonitoring, a careful balance of risk—and what to do when it goes wrong?
BY DR NICOLAS DEA
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Career
June 27, 2022Skills and career paths for the next generation of spine surgeons—the Swiss approach
BY CHRISTOPH ALBERS, MARTIN STIENEN, AND MARKUS LOIBL -
Career
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Clinical practice
April 29, 2022Improving time-to-diagnosis and treatment in degenerative cervical myelopathy: why interdisciplinary teamwork matters
BY DR LINDSAY TETREAULT AND DR CARL M. ZIPSER -
Career
April 22, 2022There is no other motivation than the belief that we can change something
BY DR NICOLAS DEA
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