Sami I AlEissa1, Koji Tamai2, Faisal Konbaz1, Ahmed Alturkistany3, Thomas R Blattert4, Harvinder S Chhabra5, Giuseppe Costanzo6, Edward J Dohring7, Frank Kandziora8, Ralph Kothe9, Bernardo Misaggi10, Eric J Muehlbauer11, Paulo Pereira12, Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran13, William J Sullivan14, Eeric Truumees15, Yahya Alqahtani16, Hana I Alsobayel17, Joerg Franke18, Marco G A Teli19, Jeffrey C Wang20, Hazzaa M Al-Hazzaa21, Majed Nasser Alosaimi22, Sigurd Berven23, Marco Brayda-Bruno24, Andrew M Briggs25, Jamiu O Busari26, Antonello-Valerio Caserta27, Pierre Côté28, Marco Crostelli29, Michael G Fehlings30, Robert Gunzburg31, Sami Haddadin32, Joseph Ihm33, Alan S Hilibrand34, Andrea Luca35, Mazza Osvaldo29, Tim Pigott36, Dominique A Rothenfluh37, Carlo Ruosi38, Louis-Rachid Salmi39, Ajoy P Shetty13, Kern Singh40, Alexander R Vaccaro41, David A Wong11, Mehmet Zileli42, Margareta Nordin43. 1. National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2. Department of Orthopedics, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan. koji.tamai.707@gmail.com. 3. King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 4. Schwarzach Orthopaedic Clinic, Schwarzach, Germany. 5. Indian Spinal Injuries Center, New Delhi, India. 6. Sapienza Rome University, Rome, Italy. 7. Spine Institute of Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA. 8. Center for Spinal Surgery and Neurotraumatology, Frankfurt, Germany. 9. Clinic for Spinal Surgery, Hamburg, Germany. 10. Orthopaedic Institute Gaetano Pini-CTO, Milan, Italy. 11. North American Spine Society, Burr Ridge, IL, USA. 12. University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. 13. Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore, India. 14. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. 15. University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA. 16. Presidency of State Security, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 17. King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 18. Klinikum Magdeburg gGmbH, Magdeburg, Germany. 19. Walton Centre NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK. 20. University of Southern California Spine Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 21. Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 22. King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 23. University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. 24. IRCCS Orthopedic Institute Galeazzi, Milano, Italy. 25. Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia. 26. Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands. 27. ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, Milan, Italy. 28. Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON, Canada. 29. Ospedale Bambino Gesù, Roma, Italia. 30. University of Toronto and University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada. 31. Cavell Spine Center, Brussels, Belgium. 32. Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, TUM, Munich, Germany. 33. Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. 34. Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 35. IRCCS Galeazzi, Milan, Italy. 36. EUROSPINE, Zürich, Switzerland. 37. Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK. 38. Federico II University, Naples, Italy. 39. Université de Bordeaux, INSERM and Centre hospitalier universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. 40. Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA. 41. Sidney Kimmel Medical Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 42. Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. 43. Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Environmental Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
Abstract
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. METHODS: The founders of SPINE20 advocacy group coordinated with G20 Saudi Arabia to conduct the SPINE20 summit in 2020. The summit was intended to promote evidence-based recommendations to use the most reliable information from high-level research. Eight areas of importance to mitigate spine disorders were identified through a voting process of the participating societies. Twelve recommendations were discussed and vetted. RESULTS: The areas of immediate concern were "Aging spine," "Future of spine care," "Spinal cord injuries," "Children and adolescent spine," "Spine-related disability," "Spine Educational Standards," "Patient safety," and "Burden on economy." Twelve recommendations were created and endorsed by 31/33 spine societies and 2 journals globally during a vetted process through the SPINE20.org website and during the virtual inaugural meeting November 10-11, 2020 held from the G20 platform. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first time that international spine societies have joined to support actions to mitigate the burden of spine disorders across the globe. SPINE20 seeks to change awareness and treatment of spine pain by supporting local projects that implement value-based practices with healthcare policies that are culturally sensitive based on scientific evidence.
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. METHODS: The founders of SPINE20 advocacy group coordinated with G20 Saudi Arabia to conduct the SPINE20 summit in 2020. The summit was intended to promote evidence-based recommendations to use the most reliable information from high-level research. Eight areas of importance to mitigate spine disorders were identified through a voting process of the participating societies. Twelve recommendations were discussed and vetted. RESULTS: The areas of immediate concern were "Aging spine," "Future of spine care," "Spinal cord injuries," "Children and adolescent spine," "Spine-related disability," "Spine Educational Standards," "Patient safety," and "Burden on economy." Twelve recommendations were created and endorsed by 31/33 spine societies and 2 journals globally during a vetted process through the SPINE20.org website and during the virtual inaugural meeting November 10-11, 2020 held from the G20 platform. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first time that international spine societies have joined to support actions to mitigate the burden of spine disorders across the globe. SPINE20 seeks to change awareness and treatment of spine pain by supporting local projects that implement value-based practices with healthcare policies that are culturally sensitive based on scientific evidence.
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