Below are the main categories for spine surgical treatment including:
- General spine surgery techniques such as decompression, instrumentation, and fusion.
- Disease specific spine surgery techniques such as for reconstructive / deformity, trauma, tumor and infection.
GENERAL SPINE SURGERY TECHNIQUES
A comprehensive spine surgery plan may require multiple of the below techniques (for example, a common treatment is a decompression, instrumentation, and fusion, which can be done in a single stage or multiple stages). Click the heading and surgery links below to learn more.
Decompression surgery
Removing compression from nerves roots / spinal cord
Instrumentation surgery
Placing hardware like screws, rods , cages, devices
Stabilizing
Fixing the spine in place
- Interbody cages
- Screw and rod instrumentation
Motion preservation
Fixing a joint and preserving motion
Fusion surgery
Placing bone graft to grow bones together
DISEASE SPECIFIC SPINE SURGERY TECHNIQUES
The below techniques are specific to the disease process. Click on the disease link to review.
Infection
- Discitis / osteomyelitis debridement and stabilization
- Epidural abscess evacuation
- Revision / washout surgery
Reconstructive / Deformity
- Adult degenerative scoliosis correction
- Cervical deformity correction
- Cranio-cervical fusion
- Flat back syndrome correction
- Instrumentation revision
- Pedicle subtraction osteotomy
- Posterior column osteotomy
- Sagittal balance restoration
- Thoracic kyphosis correction
Trauma
- Burst fracture reconstruction
- Cervical fracture stabilization
- Lumbar fracture stabilization
- Open reduction and internal fixation of fracture
- Percutensous stabilization
- Thoracic fracture stabilization
Tumor
- Intradural extra-medullary tumor resection
- Intramedullary (spinal cord) tumor resection
- Metastatic boney spine tumor resection
- Separation surgery
NEXT STEPS…
If you are interested in learning more about spine fusion surgery, click on the links to specific surgeries above.