Dr. Kern Singh attends and presents at North America’s Spine Society 39th Annual Meeting

Posted on: September 30th, 2024 by Our Team

The North American Spine Society (NASS) recently hosted its annual conference in Chicago, from September 25th-28th. NASS is a global medical organization committed to advancing ethical, value-driven, and evidence-based spine care through education, research, and advocacy. Some key highlights from this year’s meeting were comprehensive educational sessions on multidisciplinary spine care featuring symposia and abstract presentations, ​​insights from leading experts and distinguished innovators in the field, and the latest advancements in cutting-edge spine research.

Dr. Kern Singh, a renowned spine surgeon, was invited to present his extensive research at the conference. The studies presented focused on the impact of preoperative factors such as disability, anxiety, mental health, and workers’ compensation, on clinical outcomes following various spine surgeries, including cervical disc herniation, lumbar decompression, and lumbar fusion. Dr. Kern Singh and his team researched comparisons of surgical techniques such as lateral lumbar interbody fusion and cervical disc replacement, emphasizing complication rates, revision outcomes, and learning curves in spine surgery.

Dr. Kern Singh and his research team were chosen to showcase the following 7 poster presentations, 9 rapid-fire presentations, 8 podium presentations:

1. Influence of Preoperative Disability on Outcomes Following Primary Surgical Treatment of Cervical Disc Herniation
2. Correlation Between PROMIS Physical Function and Legacy Physical Function PROMs in Patients Undergoing Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion
3. Effect of Age and Preoperative PROMIS-Anxiety Score on Clinical Outcomes in Lumbar Decompression Patients
4. Comparison of Age Differences in Clinical Outcomes of Lumbar Microdiscectomy
5. The Impact of Age and Gender on Short Term PROMIS Outcomes in Lumbar Decompression
6. Failure to Reach Early MCID in ACDF Patients
7. Revision Minimally Invasive Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion Yields Similar Clinical Outcomes as Revision Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Interbody Fusion
8. Systematic Review of Common Complications Reported After Unilateral and Biportal Endoscopic Lumbar Spine Surgery
9. The Impact of Preoperative Anxiety on Clinical Outcomes following Lumbar Fusion
10. Effect of Workers’ Compensation on PROMIS Outcome Measures in Spine Patients undergoing Lumbar Decompression
11. Postoperative Clinical Trajectory of Primary versus Revision Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion
12. Impact of Length of Stay on Outcomes after Minimally Invasive TLIF versus LLIF
13. Patients with Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders treated with Minimally Invasive Microdiscectomy report Improvement in Clinical Outcome Measures
14. Biological Sex Influences Patient-reported Outcomes for Patients with a High Preoperative PROMIS-anxiety Score Undergoing Lumbar Decompression
15. Worse Baseline Neck Pain is Associated with Worse Postoperative Mental Health, Physical Function, and Cervical Range of Motion Following Cervical Disc Replacement
16. Influence of Preoperative Symptom Duration on Clinical Outcomes After Lumbar Decompression in the Ambulatory Surgical Setting
17. Predictors of Chronic Back Pain After Lateral Lumbar Fusion
18. Predictors of Time to Achieve Clinically Significant Improvements Following Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion
19. Determining Time to Achieve Clinically Meaningful Improvements in Pain and Disability Following Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion
20. Does Poor Anxiety and Mental Health Correlate with Inferior Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Cervical Disc Replacement?
21. Mental and Physical Health Outcomes Of Outpatient Lumbar Decompression for Patients with Severe Baseline Disability
22. Patients with Elevated Depressive Symptoms Undergoing Lumbar Decompression for Disc Herniation Do Not Report Inferior Outcomes in the Ambulatory Surgical Center
23. The Effect of Operative Level on Clinical Outcomes After Cervical Spine Surgery
24. Cumulative Sum Analysis for Cervical Laminoplasty Single-Surgeon Learning Curve

For more information about NASS and its upcoming meetings, please visit the official NASS website: https://www.spine.org/am