NOHC's Spine Center of Excellence: Treating Degenerative Disc Disease and Other Causes of Spinal Pain

Back pain, neck pain, degenerative disc disease: the world of spinal care demands a collaborative team of physicians and medical professionals. NOHC is passionately focused on offering patients an interdisciplinary approach to managing back conditions like degenerative disc disease and other disorders.

At NOHC, you will find individualized, compassionate care for degenerative disc disease and other cause of spinal pain. In many cases, the right approach may be conservative management of back pain and neck pain. Other diagnoses of disc and spine problems may necessitate surgery. Our team includes some of the most well respected physiatrists in the area—physicians trained to get to the specific root of the pain and make a definitive diagnosis of your disease. Physiatrists are also the most uniquely qualified physicians to then develop a treatment plan focused on non-surgical solutions—which may include physical and occupational therapy as well as medication and injection therapy. Physiatrists at NOHC work hand in hand with their neurosurgeon colleagues and will make a referral if non-surgical solutions fail. This team approach is the gold standard for spine-related neck and back pain treatment today.

NOHC's physicians are frequently selected to pioneer new procedures, such as artificial discs for low back and neck pain, or other motion sparing devices such as the TFAS system for facet-related back pain. They collaborate with colleagues across the country to develop minimally invasive approaches or more advanced spinal implants that offer patients refinements in even the standard traditional procedures for back and neck pain. View an animation of a new successful procedure for the pain caused from herniated discs, or rupture in the tissue that surrounds the diseased disc.

During spine surgeries-such as artificial disc replacement or spinal fusions-at NOHC, our professionals use today's most advanced technology to assure accuracy and positive results. For example, the new Siemens Iso-C3D device coupled with the latest Medtronic Stealth navigation system, allows the surgeon to view the operative field in "real time" from any and all perspectives, and to use this information to safely navigate in and around the spine. For patients, that means increased safety, less radiation exposure, and potentially shorter operations on degenerative discs and other spinal maladies.