"NSERC/Medtronic Industrial Research Chair in Spine Biomechanics/Chaire de recherche industrielle CRSNG-Medtronic en biomécanique de la colonne vertébrale"

脊柱是我们身体的一个复杂而核心的组成部分，参与平衡姿势、运动和保护脊髓。严重的脊柱畸形、创伤和退行性疾病一般采用脊柱内固定手术进行融合。这是一种广泛的侵入性手术，永久性地限制了脊柱节段的运动，并在融合节段和未融合节段之间的交界处以及结构内部施加了额外的压力，特别是在骨-种植体界面和致密的结构中。尽管在过去的几十年里，生物医学技术有了很大的进步，但脊柱手术仍然非常有侵入性，而技术仍然主要是经验性的和特定于外科医生的。这是一个不发达的领域，工程研究对于提高脊柱生物力学知识至关重要。这个

The spine is a complex and central component of our body, involved in posture equilibrium, movements, and protection of the spinal cord. Severe spinal deformities, trauma, and degenerative conditions are generally treated with spinal instrumentation surgery involving fusion. This is an extensive and invasive procedure that permanently restricts motion of spinal segments and places additional stress on the junction between fused and unfused segments and within the construct, especially at the bone-implant interface and in dense constructs. Despite significant improvements in biomedical technologies over the last decades, spinal surgeries remain very invasive while techniques continue to be mostly empirical and surgeon-specific. This is an underdeveloped area where engineering research is crucial to improve knowledge of spine biomechanics. The