Zeitschrift für Wirbelsäule

Surgeon Handedness in Transpedicular Instrumentation - A Short Review

Abstract

Ahmet Ogrenci and Onur Yaman

Many surgeons have right hand dominance as in the normal population. Right hand dominance may cause difficulties depending on the position of the patient and the surgeon position according to the patient during surgical treatment. Even when the patient is operated on in the neutral position, there are some challenges. In spinal surgery, the difficulties faced by surgeons are in the phase of spinal instrumentation, which requires bilateral application. The challenges experienced by surgeons with left hand dominance are quite different.