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Carlo Ammendolia

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of SurgeryUniversity of Toronto

Carlo Ammendolia

Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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20 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Latest papers

Development and acceptability of a patient decision aid for people with degenerative cervical myelopathy: an international mixed-methods study.
BMJ open · 2026
Correction: Ten myths of back pain in older adults that can lead to ineffective and harmful care.
Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2026 · first author
Accelerating diagnosis of degenerative cervical myelopathy through improved education: a mixed-methods study protocol from Myelopathy.org RECODE-DCM to define stakeholders, knowledge requirements and an optimal intervention strategy.
BMJ open · 2026

All 63 publications

63 publications.

Development and acceptability of a patient decision aid for people with degenerative cervical myelopathy: an international mixed-methods study.

Gamble AR, Anderson DB, McKay MJ, Davies B, Macpherson S, Van Gelder J, Hoffmann T, McCaffery K, Stevens SX, Ammendolia C, Chauhan RV, Zipser CM, Boerger TF, Tetreault LA, Fehlings MG, Dustan E, Nugent C, Holmgren H, Demetriades AK, Lantz JM, Dhillon R, Maher CG, Zadro JR

BMJ open2026

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-106337 PMID: 41932703

Correction: Ten myths of back pain in older adults that can lead to ineffective and harmful care.

Ammendolia C

Chiropractic & manual therapies2026First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12998-026-00638-y PMID: 41913199

Accelerating diagnosis of degenerative cervical myelopathy through improved education: a mixed-methods study protocol from Myelopathy.org RECODE-DCM to define stakeholders, knowledge requirements and an optimal intervention strategy.

Veremu M, Deakin N, Chauhan RV, Lantz JM, Toumbas G, Tabrah J, Kumar V, Zipser CM, Plener J, Ammendolia C, Anderson DB, Dos Santos Rubio EJ, Tetreault L, Parnaik R, Rodrigues-Pinto R, Ong'wen OM, Sarewitz E, Sadler I, Roberts T, Langridge N, Swait G, Hadfield-Law L, Draper-Rodi J, Wood L, Stacpoole S, Ganau M, Baig S, Bateman A, Demetriades AK, Peul WCW, Davies B

BMJ open2026

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-107940 PMID: 41876155

Correction to: No drugs, more sex? And Rock'n Roll: effective non-operative treatments and practical management strategies for older adults with lumbar spinal stenosis.

Ammendolia C

Chiropractic & manual therapies2026First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12998-026-00637-z PMID: 41952183

Prehabilitation in degenerative cervical myelopathy: An underexplored opportunity to optimize outcomes.

Fortin M, Chauhan RV, Boerger TF, Montpetit C, Kobaisi A, Lantz JM, Kumar V, Plener J, Demetriades AK, Wood L, Dastagir O, Treanor C, Toumbas G, Ammendolia C, Wilson N, Anderson DB, RECODE-DCM Perioperative Rehabilitation Incubator

Brain & spine2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.bas.2026.106105 PMID: 42253823

Ten myths of back pain in older adults that can lead to ineffective and harmful care.

Ammendolia C

Chiropractic & manual therapies2025First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12998-025-00609-9 PMID: 41094694

No drugs, more sex? And Rock'n Roll: effective non-operative treatments and practical management strategies for older adults with lumbar spinal stenosis.

Ammendolia C

Chiropractic & manual therapies2025First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12998-025-00590-3 PMID: 40691793

What is the role of non-surgical clinicians in the assessment and management of degenerative cervical myelopathy? - Insights from the RECODE-DCM peri-operative rehabilitation incubator.

Chauhan RV, Demetriades AK, Boerger TF, Lantz JM, Treanor C, Kalsi-Ryan S, Kumar V, Wood L, Plener J, Wilson N, Fortin M, Ammendolia C, Paus A, Dhillon RS, Davies B, Fehlings MG, Anderson DB, RECODE-DCM Peri-Operative Rehabilitation Incubator

Brain & spine2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.bas.2025.104275 PMID: 40487873

It might take a village: developing a rehabilitation program of care for degenerative cervical radiculopathy from the patient perspective.

Plener J, Mior S, Atkinson-Graham M, Hogg-Johnson S, Côté P, Ammendolia C

Disability and rehabilitation2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2023.2256653 PMID: 37735902

Information is power: a qualitative study exploring the lived experiences of patients with degenerative cervical radiculopathy.

Plener J, Mior S, Atkinson-Graham M, Hogg-Johnson S, Côté P, Ammendolia C

Pain2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003019 PMID: 37625188

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Carlo Ammendolia

Research

Latest papers

Development and acceptability of a patient decision aid for people with degenerative cervical myelopathy: an international mixed-methods study.

Correction: Ten myths of back pain in older adults that can lead to ineffective and harmful care.

Accelerating diagnosis of degenerative cervical myelopathy through improved education: a mixed-methods study protocol from Myelopathy.org RECODE-DCM to define stakeholders, knowledge requirements and an optimal intervention strategy.

Correction to: No drugs, more sex? And Rock'n Roll: effective non-operative treatments and practical management strategies for older adults with lumbar spinal stenosis.

Prehabilitation in degenerative cervical myelopathy: An underexplored opportunity to optimize outcomes.

Ten myths of back pain in older adults that can lead to ineffective and harmful care.

No drugs, more sex? And Rock'n Roll: effective non-operative treatments and practical management strategies for older adults with lumbar spinal stenosis.

What is the role of non-surgical clinicians in the assessment and management of degenerative cervical myelopathy? - Insights from the RECODE-DCM peri-operative rehabilitation incubator.

It might take a village: developing a rehabilitation program of care for degenerative cervical radiculopathy from the patient perspective.

Information is power: a qualitative study exploring the lived experiences of patients with degenerative cervical radiculopathy.

Frequent collaborators

Claire Bombardier

Gillian Hawker

Michel Lacerte

Jessica Wong

Mike Paulden

Jessica Wong

Jason Walter Busse

Shawn Marshall

Sophie Soklaridis

Christy Tomkins-Lane

Maryse Fortin

Murray Krahn