THE SPINE APP

Educating patients suffering from spine disease

If you are suffering from a spinal condition and would like to understand the causes and the possible treatments you are likely to find THE SPINE APP useful.

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, 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)