AO Spine

📢 Deepen your knowledge and skills in the treatment of routine and complex lumbar spine degenerative conditions and start implementing more complex spine procedures in your practice! As part of our flagship AO Davos Courses 2025, AO Spine offers the hands-on the Advanced Course—Degenerative Lumbar Spine: From MIS Fusion to Complex Deformity and Revision (With Human Anatomical Specimens). Chairpersons: Lorin Benneker (Switzerland) and Prof Alpaslan Senkoylu (Türkiye) The Advanced Specimen Course is ideal for certified spine surgeons with more than 5 years’ experience: 🗓 November 30–December 2, 2025 📍 Davos, Switzerland 🔊 English Register now and secure your spot! https://lnkd.in/dMfcXDA6 #spine #aospine #SpineSurgery #LumbarSpine #OrthopedicSurgery #AODavosCourses

📢 Complex Spine Surgery—Meet the Experts in Venice 📢 The promotion of quality management is essential. Treatment outcome assessment, research outcomes, guidelines, best papers, and best practices are not always known by all practitioners. To optimize exchanges of knowledge and in partnership with AO Spine, the Fondazione Rizzola Academy organizes the ESJ Meet the Experts 2025 Course on Complex Spine Surgery. This course addresses severe or intricate spinal conditions, often involving multiple vertebral levels or requiring advanced approaches for deformities, instability, or advanced degenerative diseases. You will have the opportunity to interact with some of the most respected world Experts in the field, while bridging between state-of-the-art sciences and clinical practice. ESJ Meet the Experts 2025 Course: Complex Spine Surgery Chairpersons: Pedro Berjano and Claudio Lamartina 📍Venice, Italy 📅 May 9–10, 2025 Language: English 🔗https://ow.ly/4YXm50ViIAn Use the code MTE10AO to unlock an exclusive discount offered to the AO Spine community. #spine #AOSpine #ComplexSpineSurgery #SpineSurgery #SurgicalEducation

This one-day, interactive advanced seminar engages participants through a series of case-based exercises and discussions related to real life scenarios. Short lectures will focus on the essential skills required to effectively address the clinical issues presented. The seminar is designed to enhance understanding of the management of spinal deformities in adult patients. Participants will receive training to effectively apply their knowledge and technical skills, equipping them with the essential concepts and tools required for successfully treating deformity cases. AO Spine Advanced Seminar—Spinal Deformity, Strategy Assessment and Putting it in Action Chairperson(s): Wiktor Urbanski (Poland) Advanced Seminar 🗓 June 6, 2025 📍 Łódź, Poland 🔊 English Register now https://ow.ly/ROBo50VezfZ

✍️ We kindly invite you to participate in a survey aimed at exploring the practice patterns and knowledge gaps related to adult spinal deformity. With the support of the global AO Spine community, we aim to identify the knowledge gaps and open questions regarding patients with Adult Spinal Deformity. Additionally, we seek to assess the effectiveness of knowledge translation for instruments and recommendations already developed by the AO Spine Knowledge Forum Deformity. The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete 🔗https://lnkd.in/dJVuTir3 Deadline to respond is April 14, 2025. Thank you for your time and commitment to advancing the knowledge and practice in the field of adult spinal deformity! #spine #AOSpine #KFDeformity #AdultSpinalDeformity #AOspine #SpinalDeformity #KnowledgeTranslation #ClinicalResearch

AO Spine Principles Seminar—Spinal Trauma and Infections Chairperson(s): Kannan Karthik Kailash (India), Rishi Kanna (India) Principles Seminar 🗓 April 26–27, 2025 📍 Chennai, India 🔊 English Register now https://ow.ly/sL1N50VlbKA

New! Engage, learn & collaborate with polls We know that the best clinical decisions come from shared expertise. That’s why we’re excited to introduce polls, now available on myAO! • Gather expert opinions on complex cases & techniques • Engage your peers in real-time discussions • Compare surgical approaches & best practices • Make learning interactive in courses & events Whether you're tackling a challenging case, debating the latest research, or engaging in a group or an event, polls give you instant insights from your peers. Try it today—start a poll and see what your colleagues think: https://ow.ly/pe7X50Vgxx0

📚 Michael Kuschner from AO Trauma, Panama, shares the benefits of having access to high-impact AO journals. What are your thoughts? 🤔 #AOCommunityMoments Read more about the AO community here👇 https://ow.ly/lS2250VeBz8

AO Spine Principles Seminar—Lumbar & Cervical Degeneration Chairperson(s): Amol Rege (India), Gururaj Sangondimath (India) Principles Seminar 🗓 April 5–6, 2025 📍 Pune, India 🔊 English Register now https://ow.ly/nL0U50VkuJa

✨AO Spine Asia Pacific will bring you the AO Spine Asia Pacific Regional Conference and the annual signature AO Spine Asia Pacific Advanced Level Regional Anatomical Specimen Course—MISS and Endoscopic Spine Surgery in Bangkok, Thailand, on September 18-21, 2025, marking a new milestone in continuing education for spine surgery in the Asia-Pacific region.🌍 Discover more!! 🔗https://ow.ly/vKek50Vkujt

We are pleased to share the editorial: "AO Spine / Praxis Spinal Cord Institute Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for acute spinal cord injury (SCI): interpretation and implications for clinical practice" published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine (https://lnkd.in/eHhqSw_G). The AO Spine / Praxis Spinal Cord Institute CPGs for the management of acute SCI are designed to empower evidence-informed decision-making and improve clinical outcomes for SCI patients. But we need your help! 🙌 We invite the clinical community to join us in identifying key knowledge gaps and collaborating on the best ways to implement these guidelines in practice. Together, we can take SCI care to the next level. 🚀 What are your thoughts? 💬 Read the full AO Spine & Praxis Spinal Cord Institute Guidelines for the Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury here: https://lnkd.in/exuPmHX3   #AOSpine #SCI #ClinicalGuidelines #EvidenceBasedCare #HealthcareInnovation #Collaboration #KFSCI #AOSpineKFSCI