Spine

Spine Care at The Orthopedic Clinic

Your spine provides balance, absorbs shock, allows you to bend and twist, and protects your spinal cord and nerves. It can be difficult to live your best life when you’re suffering from spinal pain and issues. At The Orthopedic Clinic, we want you to live your best life in full motion. That’s why we provide:

• Physical therapy for before or after surgery care
• Minimally invasive surgery for faster recovery
• Outpatient surgical procedures with minimal time in the hospital
• Interventional pain management

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Why Choose Our Spine Surgeons?

At The Orthopedic Clinic, we give our patients the ability to live their very best life in full motion. We approach spinal care with this mindset, customizing our treatment plan to you. Why? Because we believe this is how to provide the best care possible. That’s what you deserve.

At The Orthopedic Clinic, we offer:

• Minimally invasive approach to surgery for the fastest recovery possible
• Multiple physicians who perform outpatient spine procedures
• On-site physical therapy centers for a seamless patient experience
• Dilation port, a technique that makes most decompression surgeries outpatient

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Spine Treatments

The spine is our body’s central support structure. It’s made up of a chain of bones that keeps us upright and connects different parts of our skeleton to each other. The spine is critical in allowing us to perform routine activities in addition to living in full motion. That’s why it’s important for your spine to function properly. We routinely perform several spine treatments at The Orthopedic Clinic, including:

Kyphoplasty

We insert a small balloon into the spinal fracture, then inflate it to allow reduction of the fracture. Once the balloon is deflated, we’ll inject medical-grade cement into the fractured vertebrae to restore stability and relieve pain. The advantages of our approach include:

• Improved quality of life
• Reduces pain
• Typically an outpatient procedure
• Lower chance of bleeding and infection
• Faster recovery

Decompressive Surgery

Using a dilation port, our surgeons are able to spare muscles in the spine and alleviate the compressed nerve roots. The advantages of our approach include:

• Increased mobility
• Faster recovery
• Less hospital time
• Lower chance of bleeding and infection
• Almost always outpatient or overnight stay

Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery

Lumbar spinal fusion surgery restores stability in the spine. We use new, minimally invasive techniques that allow them to fuse parts of the vertebrae. The advantages of our approach include:

• New minimally invasive techniques
• Faster recovery
• Many times can be done outpatient
• Lower chance of bleeding and infection

Posterolateral Interbody Fusion Surgery

Posterolateral interbody fusion surgery fixes problems with small bones in the spine. The procedure fuses the painful parts of the vertebrae together so they heal into a single, solid bone. We make an incision in the lower back and place a bone graft between the vertebrae to stimulate bone growth. Screws and other internal devices hold the vertebrae in proper alignment during the recovery process.

Transformational Interbody Fusion Surgery

Transformational interbody fusion surgery is similar to posterolateral interbody fusion, except this approach happens outside the spinal canal. Bone grafts are placed between the vertebrae to stimulate bone growth to create a healthy and solid spine. Screws and other internal devices hold the vertebrae in proper alignment during the recovery process.

Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion Surgery

We place a spacer or a “cage” through a single incision along the patient’s torso and in the front of the spine. This allows us to place screws and bone grafts to promote vertebrae fusion and healing. The advantages of our approach include:

• New minimally invasive techniques
• Faster recovery
• Less disruption to spinal tissue
• Lower chance of bleeding and infection