Everyone

Trinity Medical Center

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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)


THE SPINE APP

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