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Conditions Treated

Ours fellowship-trained physicians have expertise in all types of conditions affecting the spine including:

• Arthritis
• Cervical and lumbar radiculopathy
• Compression fractures
• Disc degeneration
• Disc herniations
• Neck and low back pain
• Scoliosis
• Spinal cancer
• Spinal cord disorders
• Spinal cord injury
• Spinal stenosis
• Spine trauma
• Spondylolisthesis
• Spondylosis
• Vascular spine disorders

Services

Nonsurgical Treatment Options

Our comprehensive approach provides patients with access to a wide range of nonsurgical treatments and support services for spinal disorders. Among these are drug therapy, spinal injections, therapeutic exercise and lifestyle changes.

Minimally Invasive Surgery

For patients who have unsuccessfully tried conservative methods to alleviate back or neck pain, minimally invasive surgical techniques are now available to correct virtually any spinal disorder. This approach benefits patients by reducing hospitalization time, decreasing pain and facilitating a faster recovery. Microsurgical advances also minimize the impact of surgery on adjacent muscles and ligaments. Among the many procedures performed by our spine specialists are:

• Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
• Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF)
• Artificial disc replacement
• Decompressive laminectomy
• Extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF)
• Kyphoplasty
• Microdiscectomy
• Posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF)
• Scoliosis surgery
• Spondylosthesis surgery
• Tranforminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF)
• Vertebroplasty
• X-stop procedure

UC Irvine Healthcare currently offers cervical disc arthroplasty, a new surgical procedure to treat patients with cervical degenerative disc disease. Cervical disc arthroplasty has been shown to preserve motion, reduce recovery time and reduce reoperations – compared to traditional anterior cervical surgical techniques.