Dear Colleagues,

Once again, it is my privilege to be publishing the 1st issue of our professional journal this year. As always, it includes clinical research studies intended to provide you with up to the minute research findings you can immediately apply in your various fields.

There are seven clinical research studies, and one letter to the editor in this issue. The first study concerns the “Modeling Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy and Discectomy Approach in Sheep Cadaver Cervical Spine”. The second is a “Comparison of the Results of Single Level Cervical Disc Arthroplasty Versus Anterior Cervical Discectomy in Short to Mid-term Follow-up”. In the third article, one can read a retrospective clinical study entitled, “Biomechanical Changes in the Cervical Spine Alignment after Lumbar Dynamic Stabilization”. The fourth study is an “Evaluation of Mid-Phase Clinical Results in Patients with Full Endoscopic Transforaminal and Interlaminar Discectomy”. The authors of the fifth study examined “MIS TLIF Among Geriatric Patients With Degenerative Spondylolisthesis ”. The sixth is entitled “The Relationship of the Clinical Results of the Patients Undergoing Transforaminal Epidural Injection with Preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings” while, in the seventh, the authors wrote about “The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Frequency of Spinal Trauma: An Epidemiological Study”. The eighth article is a letter to the editor about “New Era in Postoperative Analgesia in Spinal Surgery: Thoracolumbar Interfascial Plane (TLIP) Block”

I hope you found this issue thought-provoking and edifying. My primary goal is to provide you with the most current information available so that we are all abreast of the latest cutting edge developments in our fields.

I wish all our Turkish spinal surgeons and their families a healthy, peaceful, and prosperous year.

With kindest regards,

Editor in Chief

Metin Özalay, M.D.