I started my surgical activity in the 1980s when instrumentations were in their beginning and
complications were widespread. At that time, only a few scientific societies were entirely …

The October issue of the International Journal of Spine Surgery (IJSS) again presents a
collection of scientific communication from around the globe. This international theme is at …

In this fourth special issue dedicated to the SocietaItaliana di Chirurgia Vertebrale, GIS, the
so-called Italian Supplement of the European Spine Journal, the reader can find a short …

Recent advances in medicine have increased the life expectancy of humans. 1
Consequently, clinicians must manage to improve spinal disorders specific to the elderly …

Orthopedic and neurosurgery community in Gujarat and across the country has been
seeded with an increasing number of spine surgeons, since the past few decades. The …

Over the past 7 or 8 years, the spine, characterized by several surgeons as “the last frontier
of orthopedics,” has emerged as the newest and possibly the most intensely researched and …

The progress that has been made in treating spine disease over the last century has been
remarkable. The development of orthopedics as a specialty in the 19th century included …

When S. Garfin has presented his thoughts about a year ago during a small seminary, it was
not yet known that several spine surgeons had gotten into the crossfire of a US Senate …

Despite being a rather small country (area, 41.285 km2; population, 8.5 million), embedded
in the center of surrounding Europe, Switzerland looks back on a long tradition of care for …

Orthopaedics only became a distinct specialty within the whole field of medicine about 50
years ago. Before that time, it was still a part of general surgery. For example, in the Faculty …