Clinical and experimental techniques in spine surgery

TOPICAL COLLECTIONS

Guest Editors

Sidong Yang

The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University

Dr. Sidong Yang has been working as an Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon in one of the top orthopaedic hospitals in China since 2014. His spine department has a big workload of spine surgeries, more than 5000 surgeries annually. So far, Dr. Yang has published more than 80 peer reviewed papers in international journals, secured nationally competitive grants as lead and co-lead chief investigator, worked as a peer reviewer and guest editor for many high impact international journals in his field, and is a committed participant and leader in national and international committees, including AO Spine International, Chinese Association of Research Hospitals, and Shijiazhuang Medical Association-Orthopaedic Surgeons Branch. Dr Yang is clearly a committed and passionate clinician researcher in spine research who endeavours to address the major deficiencies in our current surgical practices applied to IVD diseases and age-associated loss of IVD health.

Wenyuan Ding

Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University

Dr. Wenyuan Ding is a specialist in Spine Surgery. He is the Head, Department of Spine Surgery, and the Deputy Director of the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, China. He has been engaged in clinical treatment and basic research of spine diseases for more than 30 years. Dr. Ding innovatively applied Trephine in PSO surgery, simplified PVCR to unilateral osteotomy, and firstly introduced OLIF surgery into his hospital. More than 10,000 patients have benefited from Dr. Ding’s excellent work. He recently focused on the mechanism of estrogen on intervertebral disc degeneration, aiming to develop novel treatment for female patients. Dr. Ding is an international member of Spine Arthroplasty Society, a standing member of the First Committee of Spinal Society of SICOT China Chapter, and a member of AO Spine.

Felicity Han

The University of Queensland

Dr. Felicity Han is a Research Fellow and Leader in NanoPain Research at Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Australia. Dr Han’s research interests sit at the interface of drug delivery and the pain field. Her overarching research goal is to improve the quality of day-to-day life of patients suffering from chronic pain, by applying nanotechnology to the development of novel highly effective pain-killer products for improving chronic pain management.

Collection Overview

Over the past decade, novel surgical procedures have been developed and used in spine surgery. In addition, some animal models have been modified to suit in vivo studies in the field of spine research, in particular, intervertebral disc degeneration and regeneration. Despite the fast development of these techniques used in the area of the spine, including clinical scenarios and laboratory settings, no collections of them have been released in terms of visualized videos so far. As is well known, videos can make readers easier to understand clinical techniques and experimental methods, compared with traditional paper articles. As such, this special issue is launched and will focus on the techniques developed in the studies of spine surgery and related area. It will collect the techniques used in clinical scenarios, as well as in the laboratory. Any video article related to spine research is welcomed.