How To Obtain The Best Lumbar Lordosis

Abstract

Lumbar lordosis represents a key factor that needs to be considered and restored during lumbar surgery. The role of the surgeon is to position the patient’s spine to obtain and to keep the best possible sagittal angle depending on the amount of pelvic incidence. One of the main drawbacks of lumbar surgery is the lack of lordosis, which will lead to adjacent segment degeneration and possibly a bad clinical result at short or midterm. In this chapter, we describe some technical aspects of lumbar surgery including some tricks that may allow successful lumbar lordosis acquisition.