Spinal Frontiers · Research · Spine Podcasts
A directory of podcasts for spine surgeons, trainees and the spine team, with a short list of recent episodes worth hearing.
Listings are a selection made at NSpine's editorial discretion and are not exhaustive. Inclusion is not an endorsement, and omission implies nothing.
Podcasts made for spine professionals, not patients: who makes each one, how often it appears and whether it is run by a company. Below them, the newest episode of each show, in date order.
Congress of Neurological Surgeons Podcasts
Author Philip Louie and interviewer Juan Uribe discuss a Neurosurgery paper on the gap between patients' expectations and outcomes after minimally invasive lumbar surgery, and how it drives decisional regret.
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SpineDocs
Wojciech Pepke and Stefan Hemmer talk through causes, assessment and treatment choices in idiopathic scoliosis (German, about an hour).
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SCI Care: What Really Matters
Michael Fehlings and Andreas Demetriades discuss what an 1876 Edinburgh account of paraplegia management teaches modern SCI care.
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Scoliosis Dialogues: An SRS Podcast
A replay of Peter Newton's 2025 Harrington Lecture to the SRS, a senior paediatric deformity surgeon's reflections on the field.
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Becker's Healthcare (trade publisher; Becker's Spine Review)
Short interviews with US spine and orthopaedic surgeons and executives, weighted towards practice management, ambulatory surgery centres and market trends rather than clinical technique. Useful for a view of the US business side of spine care.
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Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)
The CNS podcast feed, covering papers from Neurosurgery and Operative Neurosurgery, guidelines, innovation and practice topics. Spine appears periodically, chiefly through the monthly journal-club discussions.
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International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS); episodes often hosted by Michael Fehlings
ISCoS's podcast of conversations with international experts on the prevention, acute management, rehabilitation and research of spinal cord injury. Several episodes tie in with papers in the society's journal, Spinal Cord.
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Scoliosis Research Society (SRS)
The SRS's own podcast, mixing society news and meeting previews with article reviews, lectures and debates on deformity surgery. Over 160 episodes; recent ones cover the IMAST 2026 debates and the SRS Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Dr Sami Ridwan and Dr Stefan Motov (neurosurgeons, Germany/Switzerland)
A German-language spine podcast by two neurosurgeons, each episode taking one clinical topic in depth, often with an invited expert. Recent subjects include idiopathic scoliosis, paediatric spinal malformations, odontoid fractures and an interview with the DWG president; a spin-off series reviews landmark spine papers.
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North American Spine Society (NASS)
The North American Spine Society's own talk show, in which invited experts debate clinical questions, new techniques and research practice. Recent runs include a series on getting spine research published and episodes on endoscopic surgery and spinal cord injury.
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AO Spine North America
An occasional AO North America feed of interviews and meeting highlights; only three episodes exist, the latest a OneAO 2026 recap. Not a regular AO Spine podcast.
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BackTable
A procedural-medicine podcast whose spine content centres on vertebral augmentation, spinal tumour ablation and minimally invasive decompression. More relevant to interventional spine teams than to open spine surgeons.
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Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy (ANPT) Spinal Cord Injury Special Interest Group
A physiotherapy-led podcast from the US neurologic physical therapy academy, interviewing clinicians and researchers on SCI rehabilitation practice. Useful for allied colleagues; no new episode since January 2026.
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Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute (host Glen Stevens, DO, PhD)
Cleveland Clinic's clinician-facing neuroscience podcast, offering CME credit for listening. Spine is one strand among many, with past episodes on endoscopic spine surgery, revision deformity surgery and axial back pain; no spine episode appeared in Aug-Oct 2026.
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Courtney Schutze and Brady Riesgraf (hosted on Podbean)
Long-form interviews with US spine surgeons centred almost entirely on motion preservation and disc arthroplasty. Treat as industry-adjacent: the content leans towards one technology area and the hosts' affiliation is not disclosed.
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We list professional podcasts only, link to each show's own page and describe it in our own words. Shows run or sponsored by a company are labelled. We found no current podcast from EUROSPINE, BritSpine, CSRS, the AANS or the German societies; tell us if we have missed one.
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