Spinal FrontiersPowered by NSpineWhat Spinal Frontiers is
Spinal Frontiers is NSpine's free spine briefing, updated every week, with a weekly email alert and the month's highlights in the NSpine newsletter, for spine surgeons, spine therapists, researchers and the spine medtech industry. It condenses each month's new patents, papers, trials, books, industry news, meetings and jobs into short summaries with links to the original sources, so a working surgeon can quickly see what matters and what is worth reading in full.
Who makes it
Publisher: Spinal Frontiers is published by NSpine Limited, which is responsible for its content.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. med. habil. Bronek Boszczyk, who holds editorial responsibility for Spinal Frontiers.
What goes in: what is new in each section's field that month, chosen by published rules, not by taste. For example, Literature Watch lists the spine papers added to PubMed in the month from the journals it tracks, and Trials Watch the spine trials newly registered on ClinicalTrials.gov. No search catches everything, so please tell us what we missed. Each page explains its own rules.
Managing Editor: Calum Henderson, NSpine Limited, publishes each issue and is in charge of the structure of the website and its emails. The editorial content is driven by each month's guest editors.
Chief Operating Officer and Head of Digital Operations: Sebastien Moros, NSpine Limited, who runs the website and the email service.
Clinical guest editor: each month a practising spine clinician joins as clinical guest editor and picks what matters most across the whole site: a paper, patent, guideline, device, meeting or resource, with surgical and practical comment.
Research guest editor: each month a clinical academic or spine scientist chooses up to ten papers from Literature Watch for readers to read first, and grades the strength of the evidence. Research guest editors do not pick their own or their co-authors' papers. Readers can volunteer.
Both guest editors declare their conflicts of interest, and the declarations are published alongside their picks. Until the first research guest editor takes up the role, the Literature Watch picks are chosen by the Spinal Frontiers editorial team.
How issues are prepared: searching patent offices, PubMed, trial registries, publishers, job boards and company news, sorting and first-draft summaries are done with the help of AI tools (Claude, by Anthropic). The NSpine team checks every item against its source before publication. Where a summary is based on an abstract only, we say so.
Editorial principles
| Summarise, never copy | Every item is written in our own words. We do not reproduce articles, abstracts or recipes. Patent drawings are shown as published by the patent office, with the source credited. |
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| Always cite and link | Each item names its source and links to it. |
| Fair listings | Meetings and courses by other organisers are listed on equal terms. NSpine's own events are clearly labelled as NSpine's wherever they appear, and are listed in date order with everyone else's; they also carry travel guides, because we organise them. NSpine's courses and news have their own page, NSpine News & Events. |
| No legal opinions on patents | We describe what a patent claims. We do not comment on validity or infringement, and a granted patent does not mean a product is approved or on the market. |
| Official documents only | Implant Systems links IFUs and technique guides only where the manufacturer or a regulator publishes them. Where neither does, we link the manufacturer's request or contact page. |
| No investment advice | Spine Markets shows share prices for information only. It is not a recommendation to buy or sell. |
| No endorsements | Mentioning a product, company, programme or resource is not a recommendation. NSpine strives to be comprehensive in the information it provides, but reserves the right to decide which companies, products, organisations and items appear, and how the site is structured. Listings are a selection made at NSpine's editorial discretion and are not exhaustive. Inclusion is not an endorsement, and omission implies nothing. |
| Flag uncertainty | Dates or facts we could not confirm with the organiser or source are labelled as such. |
Sponsorship and advertising
Spinal Frontiers is, and will stay, free to read. It accepts no product-related sponsorship or advertising from medical device or pharmaceutical companies. It has no income at present; NSpine Limited, its publisher, meets its costs. From 2027 its planned income is clearly labelled partner pages and partner offers of professional interest to readers, plus featured job listings. Any employer may pay to feature its own vacancies, medical device companies included, but a job listing never promotes a product. NSpine's own courses and events are clearly labelled as such wherever they appear.
NSpine organises courses that are supported by medical device companies. To keep Spinal Frontiers trustworthy, sponsors and advertisers have no influence on which items we cover or how we describe them, and they never see an issue before it is published. Partner offers never promote medical devices or pharmaceuticals. They appear on our clearly labelled Partner Offers page and never on editorial pages. Our weekly alert and monthly email may carry a small number of labelled items from select partners that we judge to be of professional interest to readers, such as featured jobs. Offers outside our readers' professional interest, such as holidays, travel, cars or sport, appear on the Partner Pages only and are never featured in our emails or on NSpine's LinkedIn page. Financial promotions will only come from firms authorised by the FCA or their home regulator. We do not share subscriber details with sponsors or advertisers.
Corrections and contact
If you spot an error, a broken link or a meeting we have missed, please tell us. We correct mistakes promptly and note significant corrections on the page.
Email: spinalfrontiers@nspine.com
Disclaimer
Spinal Frontiers summarises and links to information published by others for healthcare professionals, researchers and the spine industry. It is not medical, legal, regulatory or financial advice, does not reflect the opinion of NSpine, and does not claim to be complete. We accept no responsibility for the safety or use of any product or information mentioned, or for external websites, to the extent permitted by law. Always check the original source. The full disclaimer is in the Legal notice.