Basic anatomy of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spine -- Physical examination of the spine -- Surgical approaches to the spine -- Lumbar degenerative disk disease: understanding the pain generator -- Low back pain: nonoperative treatement strategies -- Herniation of the nucleus pulposus in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine -- Cervical, thoracic, and lumbar degenerative disk disease: spine stenosis -- Surgical management of low back pain -- Management of the failed back surgery patient -- Kyphosis of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine -- Spinal scoliotic deformities: adolescent idiopathic, adult degenerative, and neuromuscular -- Lumbar spondylolisthesis -- Osteoporosis: medical management and surgical treatment options -- Metabolic and inflammatory diseases of the spine -- The rheumatoid spine -- Vertebral discitis and osteomyelitis -- Primary and metastatic spinal tumors -- Intradural spinal neoplasms -- Pathophysiology and pharmacologic treatment of acute spinal cord injury -- Spinal cord injury: prehospital and emergency room management, as well as timing of treatment -- Cervical spine trauma -- Throacic and lumbar spine trauma.
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