Funding awarded for spinal injury modelling

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The management of spinal cord compression could be improved with a working 3D model of the spinal cord under development in Scotland and the West Midlands.

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To this end, a team from the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Aston University and Edinburgh University have been awarded a joint research fellowship to develop the working 3D model to improve understanding of the management of compressive spinal cord pathology.

The fellowship is funded by Orthopaedic Research UK (ORUK), the British Association of Spine Surgeons (BASS) and the British Scoliosis Society (BSS) and the project will run for three years.

The team is led by Professor Adrian Gardner, consultant spine surgeon at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and Jean-Baptiste Souppez, senior lecturer Mechanical, Biomedical and Design Engineering at Aston University.

According to ROH, the project came about following a discussion between colleagues about a patient presenting with a multi-level degenerative cervical spine with multi-level spondylolisthesis. Multiple vertebra in the patient’s neck were compressing on each other and several of these vertebra were pushed forwards creating an unstable spine.

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