Dear Colleagues,
Once again, I am honored and grateful to be the person responsible for publishing the 3rd issue of our professional journal this year. I sincerely appreciate the reviewers, assistant editors, secretaries and the Galenos Publishing House team for the efforts they put into getting this issue together. It includes seven clinical research studies. Please review it very carefully, and apply as many techniques
and as much new information as you can, into your practice.
The first is a retrospective study, “The Efficacy and Safety of Radiofrequency Neurotomy in the Treatment of Chronic Cervical Facet (zygapophyseal) Joint Pain: A Retrospective Study”. The second one is entitled, “Assessment of the Medical Accuracy and Quality of Kyphosis Videos Shared on Social Media Platforms”. The third is a clinical study, “Evaluation of Adolescents with Idiopathic Scoliosis Treated with Posterior Spinal Fusion”. The following study is entitled “Cervical Proprioception and Vestibular Functions in Patients with Neck Pain and Cervicogenic Headache: A Comparative Study”, while the fifth, is a clinical article investigating “Surgical Site Infection After Spinal Instrumentation: Review Of Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Prevention And Treatment”. The sixth is entitled, “Comparative Results in Hemivertebrectomy and Fusion Surgery Below and Above 10 Years of Age”. In the seventh study, the authors evaluated “The Efficacy of In Situ Fusion for Low-Grade Spondylolisthesis: A retrospective Study”.
I’d like to thank everyone, especially the reviewers, who worked to get this issue out to our colleagues. I hope everyone appreciates the amount of work and effort that goes into publishing these issues. Please incorporate all of the pertinent information included here into your practice. Our mission remains the same, to keep you abreast of all the latest developments in our field.
With kindest regards,
Editor in Chief
Metin Özalay, M.D.