He jokes about it, with his accusation of hypochondria. “Please don’t say that again. It’s bullshit. I’m not a hypochondriac, but a big fan of doctors.” But he claims to be an honorary doctor, Carlo Verdonewho inaugurated the forty-fifth congress of the Italian Society of Spinal Surgery and the Italian Scoliosis Group in Rome with a lectio magistralis, title: “Back pain, this known”.
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In fact, back pain is one of the ailments that afflicts the Roman actor and director, who has a solution to feel good: keeping fit and not putting too much burden on the spine. But not only that: “Back pain – Verdone told the audience of doctors – has various levels of treatment. I try to keep it under control but let no one ever say that I’m a hypochondriac anymore. It’s a nonsense born on the set of Cursed the Day I met you, where I play a hypochondriac who travels with a bag full of medicines, together with Margherita Buy, also a hypochondriac. Since then everyone thinks I’m a hypochondriac, but I’m just a fan of doctors. And in fact I’ve saved the lives of several people. Like when I diagnosed colon cancer in a friend of mine who survived thanks to my surgery. Once he was cured, he thanked me with a pasta alla gricia.
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At the end of the lectio, in order to boast the title of honorary member of the Sicv and Gis, Verdone found himself answering some questions from the doctors in the room: What is epistropheus? And the tail? And what is meant by kyphoplasty? Passing the exam, perhaps even better than a medical student. “Fortunately – says the actor – they asked me simple questions and I managed to get by and, for me, who am passionate about medicine, it is a source of great pride”.
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A three-day event, inaugurated by Verdone, to debate scientific innovations on the subject and to present the results that research is obtaining on various fronts. Starting from the study on rehabilitation with robots and use of exoskeletons financed with tens of millions of euros by the Pnrr: “The study – explains the professor Carlo Ruosi, president of SICV&GIS and full professor of Musculoskeletal Diseases, Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, at the Federico II of Naples – is coordinated by our University but involves the most prestigious Italian universities. This is therefore an important new frontier which, after having stabilized the patients’ spinal column, aims, with the use of robots and exoskeletons, to restore verticality and therefore to get patients back on their feet as early as possible. Unfortunately, exoskeletons still have a very high cost, but the Pnrr funds have allowed us to purchase a significant quantity of them.”
Many experts under one roof
Results that are also being achieved thanks to the happy intuition of giving a common home to the most renowned Italian professionals in the field of pathology and spinal surgery coming from both the sectors of orthopaedics, neurosurgery and physiatry: “The spinal column once – states Ruosi- was considered a very complicated topic by us orthopedists and physiatrists while by neurosurgeons it was a sort of diminutio The idea of putting these sectors under one roof and the advent of new technologies and, in particular, the use of artificial intelligence. have ensured that, especially the new generations, they have found important stimuli to deepen the study of the spine. It is therefore no coincidence that of the 200 talks scheduled for our three days, over 80 will be given by neurosurgeons as well as orthopedists and physiatrists. A true cultural revolution which, in fact, is pushing research towards horizons that were unthinkable until recently. An achievement of great importance, considering that spinal cord injuries do not make any difference in age and can affect, due to road accidents, even young people who have a life ahead of them and who cultivate the desire to get back on their feet and return, if possible , to a longed-for normality”.
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