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Handbook of Spine Technology

  • Reference work
  • © 2021

Overview

  • Summarizes internationally approved spinal technologies
  • Documents history of failed implants and poor outcomes
  • Advances field by looking to future of spinal technologies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (69 entries)

  1. Low Back Pain Is a Point of View

  2. Biomaterials and Biomechanics

  3. Considerations and Guidelines for New Technologies

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About this book

This handbook is the most authoritative and up-to-date reference on spine technology written for practitioners, researchers, and students in bioengineering and clinical medicine. It is the first resource to provide a road map of both the history of the field and its future by documenting the poor clinical outcomes and failed spinal implants that contributed to problematic patient outcomes, as well as the technologies that are currently leading the way towards positive clinical outcomes. 
The contributors are leading authorities in the fields of engineering and clinical medicine and represent academia, industry, and international government and regulatory agencies. The chapters are split into five sections, with the first addressing clinical issues such as anatomy, pathology, oncology, trauma, diagnosis, and imaging studies. The second section, on biomechanics, delves into fixation devices, the bone implant interface, total disc replacements, injury mechanics, and more. The last three sections, on technology, are divided into materials, commercialized products, and surgery. All appropriate chapters will be continually updated and available on the publisher’s website, in order to keep this important reference as up-to-date as possible in a fast-moving field. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Neuroscience Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Drexel University, Allegheny General Hospital Campus, Pittsburgh, USA

    Boyle C. Cheng

About the editor

Boyle Cheng, PhD, is Director of Neurosurgical and Spine Research at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include spine biomechanics and neurosciences, comparative test methodologies, ASTM international test standards, clinical robotics, and specimen specific dynamic models.

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