The Spine Hospital at Mount Sinai provides both surgical and nonsurgical treatments of conditions of the spine. Spine Hospital doctors works closely with nonsurgical spine specialists including physiatrists, pain management physicians, neurologists, rheumatologists, physical therapists, acupuncturists, and chiropractors to maximize non-operative care, such as physical therapy, chiropractic manipulation, and epidural steroid injections.

We are developing new and less invasive or less intrusive treatments to treat many different conditions, deformities, and diseases, including cancer.

Non-Surgical Options

Our multidisciplinary team of physicians evaluates you to develop your individual treatment plan to alleviate and resolve spinal conditions.

The non-invasive therapies and pain management options offered at the Spine Hospital include:

• Acupuncture
• Braces
• Epidural steroid injection
• Intradiscal percutaneous treatments
• Medication
• Physical therapy
• Spine joint injection

Spine Surgery

When indicated, surgical options for spinal conditions we provide include discectomy, decompression, and fusion treatments using the most advanced techniques, including minimally invasive spine surgery and microsurgery.

Treatments and procedures performed by our expert and experienced spine surgeons include:

Cervical Spine / Neck Surgical Solutions

• Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
• Cervical corpectomy and strut graft
• Cervical disc replacement
• Cervical laminoplasty
• Cervical spine surgery
• Minimally Invasive cervical foraminotomy and discectomy
• Posterior cervical fusion and laminectomy

Lumbar Spine / Lower Back Surgical Solutions

• Anterior lumbar interbody fusion
• Discectomy
• Lateral lumbar fusion
• Lumbar laminectomy
• Lumbar spine surgery
• Microdiscectomy
• Posterior lumbar Laminectomy and Fusion
• Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)
• Revision spinal surgery
• Sacroiliac fusion procedures
• Scoliosis correction
• Stereotactic-guided treatments
• Thoracic spine surgery

Minimally invasive spine surgical solutions – (MIS Treatments)

• Minimally Invasive micro-disectomy
• Minimally Invasive Laminectomy
• Minimally Invasive Lumbar fusion/ Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS TLIF)
• Minimally Invasive Lateral lumbar interbody fusion
• Navigation Assisted Surgery

Non-fusion alternative spinal surgical treatments and minimally invasive treatments performed at the Spine Hospital include:

• Lumbar micro-decompression
• Lumbar interlaminar decompression and stabilization

Spine Rehabilitation

Our rehabilitation services include:

• Rehabilitation for low back pain
• Rehabilitation of the cervical spine
• Spinal cord injury rehabilitation program

The Spine Hospital also provides surgical and non-surgical consultation for second opinions for surgery and workers’ compensation (workmen's compensation) claims.