Marco Burkhard, MD, spine surgeon at HSS, shared insight with Becker's Spine Review on what the next decade holds for spine care.

He shared, “I do not think ‘bigger surgery’ because of radiographic malalignment will define the next decade of spine care. The field is moving toward biologically informed, tissue-preserving surgery with increasingly personalized decision-making. Better imaging, AI and objective patient-specific risk assessment will allow us to identify who truly benefits from surgery and, just as importantly, who can safely avoid it.”

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