Surgery is not recommended for all spinal conditions; it is only recommended when nonoperative measures have been tried and have failed. Surgery is usually reserved for conditions in which a nerve or the spinal cord is compressed and neurological function is compromised, or if the spine has become unstable due to disease processes. Your doctor may recommend surgery if you have neck or back pain, with or without neurologic compromise. Neurologic involvement may result in pain that radiates down your legs or arms, numbness, weakness or tingling in your arms or legs and loss of bladder or bowel control.



When surgery is indicated for back or neck disorders, it is essential that you receive care from a highly trained spinal surgeon. At the Columbia Presbyterian Spine Center, our surgeons are world leaders in spine surgery and we offer the highest level of expertise in an array of sophisticated spinal procedures for the treatment of:

Herniated disk
Disk degeneration
Spinal stenosis
Spinal Tumors
Spinal Cord Tumors
Fractures
Spinal deformity
Spinal instability

Our surgeons are highly trained in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery techniques that provide less invasive microsurgical and endovascular options than those offered with traditional surgeries, including:

Decompression lumbar laminectomy
Microdiscectomy
Embolization of spinal arteriovenous
Malformations or hypervascular tumors
Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty