Latest Reviews
Spineopedia Mission & Purpose
Our mission is to be the most comprehensive online community devoted to the collection and dissemination of high quality, evidence based research findings, and unbiased study reviews related to spine care, while fostering transparent, open scholarly discussion amongst spine care professionals to improve treatment and outcomes. Spineopedia is a resource intended to enhance decision making by both spine providers and consumers.
The Spineopedia Score represents a modern review of the top cited historical and contemporary spine studies: How good is the evidence?
Featured Spineopedia Reviewed Study
This is a retrospective review of reported outcomes of 158 patients, with a minimum of 25 years followup after microsurgical discectomy of a lumbar herniated disc. The Authors conclude that microsurgical discectomy surgery is an effective technique with high patient satisfaction. This is an important retrospective long term view on microdiscectomy, and certainly is consistent […]
9
Latest Spine News - May 16th, 2021 8:54 PM
- Survival Analysis and Risk Factors of New Vertebral Fracture after Vertebroplasty for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fracture
- Radiofrequency ablation and balloon kyphoplasty for palliation of painful spinal metastases
- Response to the Letter to the Editor: “Vertebral fracture prevalence in RA, likely medicinal intervention-related, suggests need for greater attention to osteoporosis-prevention”
- Modified-Frailty Index Does Not Independently Predict Complications, Hospital Length of Stay or 30-Day Readmission Rates Following Posterior Lumbar Decompression and Fusion for Spondylolisthesis
- Comparison of degenerative lumbar scoliosis correction and risk for mechanical failure using posterior 2-rod instrumentation versus 4-rod instrumentation and interbody fusion
- Identifying Treatment Patterns in Patients with Bertolotti Syndrome: An Elusive Cause of Chronic Low Back Pain
- Comparison of degenerative lumbar scoliosis correction and risk for mechanical failure using posterior 2-rod instrumentation versus 4-rod instrumentation and interbody fusion
- Combined Anterior-Posterior Versus Posterior-only Spinal Fusion in Treating Dystrophic Neurofibromatosis Scoliosis With Modern Instrumentation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- Rapid Recovery Pathway Shines in Treating Idiopathic Scoliosis
- Intraoperative electromyographic techniques for the decision-making of tumor-involved nerve root resection for treating spinal schwannomas
- Evaluating ambulatory function as an outcome following treatment for spinal metastases: A systematic review
- Radiofrequency ablation and balloon kyphoplasty for palliation of painful spinal metastases
- C5 Palsy after Cervical Laminectomy: Natural History in a 10 year Series
- Correction to: A novel classification and its clinical significance in Chiari I malformation with syringomyelia based on high‑resolution MRI
- Treatment of symptomatic Chiari I malformation by "all-factors-surgery": a report of 194 cases
- Smith+Nephew launches remote physical therapy platform
- Clinical Benefit of Rehabilitation Training in Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- TransEnterix Announces Closing of $79.6 Million Bought Deal Offering of Common Stock and Full Exercise of Option to Purchase Additional Shares
- Biomechanical analysis of lumbar interbody fusion supplemented with various posterior stabilization systems
- A biomechanical comparison of a cement-augmented odontoid screw with a posterior-instrumented fusion in geriatric patients with an odontoid fracture type IIb
- Biomechanical comparison of 3 types of transdiscal fixation implants for fixing high-grade L5/S1 spine spondylolisthesis
