The prognosis of back and neck pain in the elderly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n
Top-quality care for patients<\/p>\n
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The recently-created accreditation programme, Surgical Spine Centres of Excellence (SSCoE), is clear proof of EUROSPINE\u2019s interest in promoting excellence in spine care around the world. The purpose is to certify spine centres which meet strict quality standards in the provision of patient care, spine surgery, and education, among other criteria. SSCoE certification provides a guarantee to patients that they will receive a high-quality standard of care in any approved clinic in Europe. We are looking forward to certifying a number of additional clinics next year.<\/p>\n
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Documenting safety and effectiveness of spine care treatments and technologies<\/p>\n
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The new Spine Tango registry platform offers a comprehensive implant database and feedback services to clinicians, hospitals, and medical device manufacturers. The data collected provides clear evidence on prevention, treatment effectiveness, patient safety, and best practice, supporting spine-related learning and research.<\/p>\n
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Establishing global networks of spine professionals<\/p>\n
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EUROSPINE\u2019s EuSSAB, the European Spine Societies Advisory Board, is a communication platform where national societies meet and connect on a regular basis as equal partners \u2013 defining common goals, identifying and addressing challenges, and helping to locate the brightest minds in spine. EuSSAB\u2019s network with wide geographical distribution and precise local knowledge enables sharing of minds and an effective and successful tool to find and identify new talent.<\/p>\n
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Helping patients make informed decisions<\/p>\n
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In addition to digital platforms for medical professionals, EUROSPINE also offers a platform to empower patients to learn about their condition. Patient Line provides reliable information in 14 languages to help patients understand and discuss treatment options with their healthcare provider and is considered one of the best information sources in Europe for patients with spine ailments.<\/p>\n
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Challenges in the COVID-19 context<\/p>\n
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The noticeable effects of the COVID 19 pandemic on spinal care can be attributed to various factors, such as the reallocation of hospital resources (e.g. nurses and intensive care beds) to care for patients with the coronavirus and cancelling elective surgeries to reduce the chance of the disease spreading. The combination of both factors has led to drastic changes in the daily routine not only of the spinal surgeon, but also of other professional groups involved in spinal care.<\/p>\n
In order to ensure the care of COVID-19 patients, non-urgent operations were scaled back due to government recommendations. As a result, the majority of surgeons focused on emergency surgery instead. For the patient, the delay of elective operations can lead to physical (decline of skeletal muscle tissue with age, frailty etc.) and psychological (depression; pain management strategies such as pain medication abuse, etc.) stress.<\/p>\n
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The future of spinal care<\/p>\n
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With demographic changes and changing lifestyle, the world is witnessing more spine problems than ever before. With technological, biological, medical, and surgical advances, the future is bright for improved standards of care in spine related disorders. In a scenario reaching beyond individual nations\u2019 needs, it is necessary to develop strategies to improve access to affordable and quality spine care. EUROSPINE aims to prioritise the most urgent aspects of future developments in spine care, including:<\/p>\n
\nIdentifying and understand the most promising advances in spine care which could help improve access to quality spine care; and<\/li>\n Strengthening strategies on how to improve global access to these advancements in spine care like telemedicine, day care spine centres, virtual reality, or robotics in spine therapy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EUROSPINE outlines its mission and how it works to achieves its vision for spine care, and discusses the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10551],"tags":[22750],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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