6 results match your criteria: "University of Southern California Spine Center[Affiliation]"

Purpose: The focus of SPINE20 is to develop evidence-based policy recommendations for the G20 countries to work with governments to reduce the burden of spine disease, and disability.

Methods: On September 17-18, 2021, SPINE20 held its annual meeting in Rome, Italy. Prior to the meeting, the SPINE20 created six proposed recommendations.

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SPINE20 A global advocacy group promoting evidence-based spine care of value.

Eur Spine J

August 2021

Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Environmental Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, USA.

Purpose: The Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) Studies have estimated that low back pain is one of the costliest ailments worldwide. Subsequent to GBD publications, leadership of the four largest global spine societies agreed to form SPINE20. This article introduces the concept of SPINE20, the recommendations, and the future of this global advocacy group linked to G20 annual summits.

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Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) has disrupted the normal delivery of healthcare for spine surgeons across the world. In this review, we will provide an overview of COVID-19's clinical features, and discuss the optimization and treatment of spine pathology during the ongoing global pandemic.

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Effects of sagittal endplate shape on lumbar segmental mobility as evaluated by kinetic magnetic resonance imaging.

Spine (Phila Pa 1976)

August 2014

*Department of Spine Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China †Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and ‡Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Southern California Spine Center, Los Angeles, CA.

Study Design: Retrospective analysis using kinetic magnetic resonance imaging.

Objective: To investigate relationships between vertebral endplate remodeling, Modic changes, disc degeneration, and lumbar segmental mobility.

Summary Of Background Data: Previous studies have shown that disc degeneration and vertebral endplate Modic changes are associated with differences in spinal motion, however, the effects of vertebral endplate morphology on lumbar segmental motion have not been fully investigated.

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