Table of Contents

December 01, 2025; Volume 19, Issue S3

• Focus Issue Article

  • • Editor’s Introduction—Rethinking Pain: What We Are Treating, What We Are Missing, and Why It Matters

      Morgan P. Lorio

      • International Journal of Spine Surgery December 2025, 19 (S3) S12;
      • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8805

• Special Issue (Invited)

  • • Guest Editorial: Neurogenetics and the Future of Pain: Reclaiming Reward, Function, and Identity

      Kenneth Blum

      • International Journal of Spine Surgery December 2025, 19 (S3) S14;
      • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8806

• Other and Special Categories

  • • Billions Spent, Few Saved: Rethinking National Institutes of Health HEAL Initiative in Light of Dopaminergic Alternatives to the Opioid Trap

      Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski, Kenneth Blum, Morgan P. Lorio, Sergio Luis Schmidt and Rossano Kepler Alvim Fiorelli

      • International Journal of Spine Surgery December 2025, 19 (S3) S16;
      • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8804
    • Prehabilitation Reimagined as Policy: A Multidimensional Framework to Reduce Pain, Opioid Use, and Surgical Risk

      Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski, Morgan P. Lorio, Igor Elman, Kenneth Blum, Albert Pinhasov, Panayotis K. Thanos, Sergio Luis Schmidt and Rossano Kepler Alvim Fiorelli

      • International Journal of Spine Surgery December 2025, 19 (S3) S30;
      • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8807

• Focus Issue Article

  • • Safety Evaluation of Intradiscal Delivery of Nucleus Pulposus Allograft for Lumbar Discogenic Pain

      Meredith L. Langhorst, Daniel R. Kendall, Siddardth Umapathy, Amol Soin and Morgan P. Lorio

      • International Journal of Spine Surgery December 2025, 19 (S3) S48;
      • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8808

• Lumbar spine

  • • Beyond Pain Relief: Preventing Recurrence and Preserving Function After Lumbar Discectomy

      Parker Babington, Jason Zook, K. Brandon Strenge, Pierce Nunley, Juliette Beristain, Marcus Stone, Laura C. Shum and Michael Musacchio

      • International Journal of Spine Surgery December 2025, 19 (S3) S54;
      • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8803

• Special Issue

  • • Total Joint Replacement of the Lumbar Spine: 12-Month Pain and Functional Outcomes From an Investigational Device Exemption Clinical Trial

      Pierce D. Nunley, J. Alex Sielatycki, S. Craig Humphreys, Scott D. Hodges, Jon E. Block, Domagoj Coric and Jeffrey A. Goldstein

      • International Journal of Spine Surgery December 2025, 19 (S3) S59;
      • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8809

• Focus Issue Article

  • • Multifidus Dysfunction and Chronic Low Back Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Supporting Data for Accurate Diagnosis and Successful Treatment Outcomes Associated With Restorative Neurostimulation

      Shay Bess, Virginie Lafage, Morgan Lorio, Bassel G. Diebo and Frank Schwab

      • International Journal of Spine Surgery December 2025, 19 (S3) S67;
      • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8814

• Other and Special Categories

  • • Differential Diagnosis of Posterior Buttock Pain: A Conceptual Review Based on Topographic Localization of Pain, Is It Really the Sacroiliac Joint?

      W. Carlton Reckling and David W. Polly

      • International Journal of Spine Surgery December 2025, 19 (S3) S85;
      • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8821

• Focus Issue Article

  • • Facilitating Earlier Discharge for Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery

      G. Damian Brusko and Michael Y. Wang

      • International Journal of Spine Surgery December 2025, 19 (S3) S99;
      • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8811

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Vol. 19, Issue S3

1 Dec 2025

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• Fortifying the Bone-Implant Interface Part 1: An In Vitro Evaluation of 3D-Printed and TPS Porous Surfaces
• Fortifying the Bone-Implant Interface Part 2: An In Vivo Evaluation of 3D-Printed and TPS-Coated Triangular Implants
• Outpatient Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: An Analysis of Readmissions from the New Jersey State Ambulatory Services Database