Matteo Traversari

PhD Candidate in Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (DIBINEM), XLI cycle, and Resident in Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the University of Bologna. He carries out both clinical and research activities at the IRCCS – Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, focusing on orthopaedic surgery with a particular interest in spinal surgery. His main clinical interests include spinal deformities in children and adolescents (congenital kyphosis and scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, Scheuermann’s disease) and adult spinal disorders (adult scoliosis, degenerative spine diseases, disc herniation, and degenerative disc disease). His primary research interests focus on the surgical correction of adolescent spinal deformities, sagittal spinal alignment in children and adolescents, and the biomechanics of the lumbosacral junction.