Robotic-assisted pars repair may be safe, effective for spondylolysis treatment
By Admin | February 12, 2026
Key takeaways:
- Most adolescent athletes who underwent robotic-assisted pars repair returned to the same or higher level of sport.
- Fusion was also evident among patients who received a CT scan at 1-year follow-up.
Results showed robotic-assisted pars repair may be a safe and effective treatment option for adolescent athletes with symptomatic spondylolysis who failed nonoperative treatment.
“We have now, in the last several years, been increasingly offering [robotic-assisted pars repair] to our patients,” Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, MBA, co-chief of spine service and Patty and Jay Baker chair in minimally invasive spine surgery at Hospital for Special Surgery and professor of orthopedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, told Healio. “It does not mean we jump the first nonsurgical treatment because some people do get better with that, but we have now increasingly been doing this.”...(More)
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