Bernhard Meyer was born in Augsburg, Germany in 1962. He spent two years at the University of Padova Medical School, Italy before completing his medical degree at the University of Erlangen, Germany in 1989. During this time he completed a sub-internship at Northwestern University, Chicago and SUNY at Brooklyn, NY, USA. He completed his neurosurgery internship and residency in Germany at the University of Tübingen and City Hospital of Duisburg, respectively. He was then a visiting neurosurgery resident at the University of Zürich, Switzerland and Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA. He received Board Certification as a Neurosurgeon from the Regional Chamber of Physicians of Northrhine-Westfalia, Düsseldorf Germany in 1995. Since then, he has worked at the University of Bonn and then the Technical University of Munich, where he is now a Full Professor. He is Chairman of the Spine Section of EANS, Past-President of the German Academy of Neurosurgery and President of the International Group for the Advancement of Spinal Surgery. He will be President of the German Spine Society in 2019.

Explains basic and advanced spine surgeries

Based on European spine surgery training curriculum

Provides a case-based approach to aid learning

Part 1: Basics and Conservative Therapy.- Psychosomatics/behaviour therapy.-Indications for emergency treatment.- Part 2: Surgical treatment of degenerative cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal pathologies.- Anterior cervical sub-axial treatment (fusion).- Cervical motion preserving procedures (TDR).- Posterior motion preserving procedures (Frykholm, laminoplasty).- Cervical myelopathy: indication and operative procedure.- Thoracic disc herniation and myelopathy.- Lumbar disc herniation, nucleo-and sequestrectomy.- Lumbar spinal stenosis.- Degenerative spondylolisthesis.- Slipped vertebra and degenerative lumbar scoliosis.- Lumbar non-fusion techniques.- Surgical treatment options at the sacroiliac joint.- Navigation in cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.- Part 3: Deformity.- Diagnosis and conservativetreatment of AIS.- Operative treatment of AIS.- Congenital and neuromuscular scoliosis.- Adult scoliosis and complication management.- Conservative treatment options and indication for surgery in spondylolisthesis.- Operative treatment of spondylolisthesis.- Parameters of spinopelvic balance, etiology and pathogenesis of disturbed spinopelvic balance.- Diagnosis, classification, and general treatment options in hyperkyphosis.- Scheuermann Disease and M. Bechterew.- Surgical correction and special features in traumatic and congenital kyphotic deformities.- Part 4: Spinal fractures.- Pre-hospital management, physical examination, polytrauma management.- Upper cervical trauma (C0-C2).- Subaxial cervical trauma (C2 - C7).- Management criteria for thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbar fractures.- Conservative management of spinal fractures.- Sacral fractures.- Pediatric spine injuries.- Spine injuries in the elderly.- Injuries in ankylosed spine condition.- Part 5: Tumors of spine and inflammatory diseases.- Vertebral osteomyelitis.- Rheumatic diseases.- Metabolic bone diseases.- Primary tumors.- Metastases.- Part 6: Intradural pathologies.- Vascular malformations: arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)/Cavernoma, spinal dAVFs.- Inflammation of spinal cord (myelitis).- Intradural, extramedullary tumors.- Intradural, intramedullary tumors.- Dysraphia, tethered cord, segmentation disorders.- Syringomyelia, sacral cysts.- Spinal cord injury - classification and diagnostics.- Spinal cord injury - surgical and pharmaceutical therapy.- Spontaneous CSF leak and ideopathic spinal cord herniation.- Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring.- Management of intraoperative dural tear.- Therapy of chronic pain syndromes (pumps, DCS, DBS, CS).- Part 7: Extended indications and advanced operative techniques.- Craniocervical junction.- Basilar invagination.- Cervicothoracic junction.- Kyphosis in ankylosing spondylitis.- Thoracic spine.- Primary bone tumor.- Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).- Lumbar degenerative scoliosis.- Adult degenerative scoliosis.- Long vs short contructs.- High-grade lumbar spondylolisthesis.- Spondyloptosis.- Sacrum.- Intradural tumors.- Oligosymptomatic intramedullary lesion.- Part 8: Revisions and complication management.- Positioning of the patient and related complications.- Postlaminectomy kyphosis.- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (epidural scar).- Adjacent segment degeneration.- Management of post-op infections.- Pseudoarthrosis management (case with implant failure).- Coronal decompensation.- Proximal junctional kyphosis.- Blood management and thromboprophylaxis in spinal surgery.- Management of failure of osteoporotic fixation.- Visceral complications of deformity surgery (pulmonary, esophageal injury or chylothorax).- Revision of adult deformity.- Iatrogenic neurologic injury.- Management of CSF fistula.- Management of mechanical failure of cervical spine.- Pitfalls of anterior lumbar revision surgery (vasculary or uretheral injury).