The SpineApp

The SpineApp is designed to help patients from all over the world to get in-depth information, which supports the decision-making process in case surgery is required.

What is THE SPINE APP? THE SPINE APP is a multilingual application designed to help patients from all over the world to get in-depth information about spine diseases including the causes, possible treatments, and protocols for decision making regarding surgery. The Spine App can be used to prepare for a doctor's appointment or to help understand a doctor's recommendation. THE SPINE APP is now available in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, and Bulgarian. More languages are soon to follow.

Enhance your medical knowledge With THE SPINE APP you will have a comprehensive guide to the most common spine diseases.

Created by a vetted spine doctor THE SPINE APP has been created by an active neurosurgeon with decades of clinical practice. As a result, you get to have up-to-date information regarding spine problems. Links to significant research papers provide readers with the opportunity to doublecheck the information provided in the app.

Features:

• Learn when you need to contact a doctor
• Find information about the treatment of spine disease
• Understand how decisions about surgery are being made
• Receive information about the most common spinal problems like: DEGENERATIVE SPINE DISEASE Cervical Disc Herniation Thoracic Disc Herniation Lumbar Disc Herniation Cervical spinal canal stenosis Lumbar spinal canal stenosis Lumbar epidural spinal canal lipomatosis Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) Synovial Facet Cyst Degenerative spondylolisthesis in the lumbar spine Facet joint pain Cervical facet joint pain Thoracic facet joint pain Lumbar facet joint pain Sacroiliac joint pain Baastrup syndrome Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis

SPINAL TRAUMA Fractures of the condyles (C0) Fractures of the atlas (C1) Traumatic occipitocervical dislocation Acquired occipitocervical instability Fractures of the axis (C2) Fractures of the odontoid proces of the axis (C2) Hangman fractures Fractures of the vertebral arches of C2 Fractures of the cervical vertebral bodies C3-C7 Clay-shoveler fracture Cervical Facet Dislocations & Fractures Chance Fracture (flexion-distraction injury) Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fracture Traumatic spondylolisthesis Postsurgical spondylolisthesis Pathologic fracture Bleeding in the spinal canal

INFLAMMA TORY SPINE DISEASE Spinal abscess Spondylodiscitis Basilar invagination Ankylosing spondylitis (Bechterew's disease) Morbus Scheuermann Inflammatory myelitis

SPINAL TUMORS Osteoid osteoma/osteoblastoma Chondroma Osteochondroma Chondroblastoma Chondromyxoid fibroma Hemangioma Benign fibrous histiocytoma Aneurysmal cyst Eosinophilic granuloma Giant cell tumor (osteoclastoma) Ependymoma Spinal neurinoma Meningoma Myeloma/Plasmacytoma/Plasmacytoma Astrocytoma Ganglioneuroblastoma Ganglioneuroma Chest tumor Epidermoid cyst Metastasis Paraganglioma Sarcoma Hemangiopericytoma Lymphoma Neuroblastoma

DEFORMITIES & MALFORMATIONS Congenital scoliosis Neuromuscular scoliosis Infantile idiopathic scoliosis Juvenile idiopathic scoliosis Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis Tethered cord syndrome Myelomeningocele Spina bifida Syringomyelia Dysplastic spondylolisthesis in the lumbar spine Isthmitic spondylolisthesis in the lumbar spine Arteriovenous malformation (AVM)