Scoliosis Research Society

Hello and welcome to Scoliosis Dialogues, the official podcast of the Scoliosis Research Society.

I'm your host, Stephanie Aino, from the University of Florida.

We're coming to you from the SRS Annual Meeting here in Sydney, Australia, and I'm delighted to be joined by our three 2026 SRS Traveling Fellows, along with their Senior Traveling Fellow, Dr. Paul Sponseller.

So I'm gonna start off by telling you all how we met.

We were at the SRS annual meeting in Seattle, and I walked over to the, uh, flight simulator-

Boeing, the Boeing flight simulator.

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And I think what that's known for is really pushing surgeons to say not just did the X-ray get better, but did the patient get better? Uh, and that's really reflected in what you've just-

Yeah, so, um, I was around in the early days of the SRS tool development, and I actually, um, Mark Asher encouraged me early on and I developed something that we originally called the Walter Reed Visual Appearance Questionnaire.

It's become the Spinal Appearance Questionnaire.