The "SFCR Experts Series" represent a book series under the aegis of the French Spine Surgery Society (SFCR) and dedicated to the spine surgery. The aim of this first volume is to bring together all the fundamental concepts of spinal surgery, thus offering the spine surgeon an up-to-date overview of this field.
To understand the present and anticipate the future, it is essential to know the past. The volume will therefore begin with the history of spinal surgery, describing the most significant milestones of this discipline. The present of spinal surgery will then be discussed, through the epidemiology of spinal practice and today's spinal pathologies. The fundamentals, including surgical anatomy, biomechanics, spinal instrumentation and biomaterials, the biology of bone fusion and bone substitutes, injuries and regeneration of the spinal cord, represent 'the heart' of the book and will subsequently be represented and illustrated within the pages by renowned experts. The economic environment is important for spinal surgery and the place and challenges of the spinal market will also be discussed. Finally, the section on data management, artificial intelligence, innovations and emerging technologies will provide the reader with perspectives and the future of spinal surgery.
This first SFCR Experts Series volume will surely be greatly appreciated by neurosurgeons and orthopedists as an important contribution to the current knowledge of spine surgery.
History of Spine Surgery.- Epidemiology of spinal diseases, spine
surgeons and spinal procedures.- Living Anatomy of the Spine.- Biomechanical
Insights and Innovations in Spinal Pathology and Surgical Interventions.-
Biology of Spinal Fusion.- Principles of spinal instrumentation.-
Biomaterials in spine surgery.- Bone substitutes.- Spinal cord injury and
regeneration.- Data management and artificial intelligence in spine surgery.-
Emerging Technologies.
Since 2014, Prof. Cédric Y. Barrey has chaired the Department of Spine and Spinal Cord Surgery, Pierre Wertheimer Hospital, GHE, Hospices Civils de Lyon, and Claude Bernard University of Lyon 1, in Lyon, France. The Spine Team performed around 1000 Spine Surgeries each year, including traumas, degenerative spine, spinal tumors, deformity cases, cervical spine, and intra-dural spinal microsurgery.
Pr. Barrey is particularly involved in the field of biomechanics, adult spinal deformities, sagittal balance disorders, and complex cervical spine surgeries.
His research activities dedicated to spine surgery involved: cervical posterior stabilization, spino-pelvic alignment and sagittal balance, biomechanics of the spine, lumbar dynamic devices, cervical disc prosthesis and spinal cord tumors. In 2008, he was a research fellow at Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Spine Surgery, Pr AR Vaccaro, Philadelphia, USA, and performed a biomechanical PhD thesis on cervical disc prosthesis in 2011 in collaboration with the Laboratory of biomechanics, ENSAM - ARTS et METIERS PARIS TECH, in Paris, with Professor W Skalli as program director.
He is the President of SFCR and a member of other important scientific societies as AO-SPINE, SSE-Eurospine , EANS and CSRS-E. He serves on the Advisory Board of the European Spine Journal and has published many articles (>130) in important international journals.
