Specialists say break down silos to improve hip and spine care

Theresa Witham

At the The Way I See It session “Evolving Considerations in Hip-Spine Surgical Patients” during the AAOS 2026 Annual Meeting, speakers repeatedly returned to a central theme: hip and spine surgeons can no longer afford to evaluate patients through separate biomechanical frameworks.

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