Spine Care

Spine Care at Mount Auburn Hospital

If you have neck or back pain, you want to get relief as soon as possible. The experts at Mount Auburn Hospital can help you feel better. We’ll explore treatment options that meet your needs, including pain management, medication or surgery.

Nonsurgical Spine Care

Most spine conditions can be treated without surgery. Our doctors will assess your back problem and overall health to come up with a plan to relieve your pain. Nonsurgical options can include pain management, physical therapy or behavior modification.

Conditions We Treat

Our spine care specialists can treat a wide range of spinal conditions, including:

• Back and neck disorders
• Degenerative conditions, such as spine arthritis
• Fractures related to osteoporosis (fragility fractures)
• Herniated disk
• Lumbar spinal stenosis (neurogenic claudication)
• Spondylolisthesis
• Spinal cord compression (myelopathy)
• Spinal nerve root compression (pinched nerve)
• Spinal deformities, including scoliosis and kyphosis
• Spine trauma and spinal cord injuries
• Spinal tumors

Surgical Spine Care

If nonsurgical treatment doesn’t work, surgery is often the next step. Our surgeons have expertise in different types of spinal surgery, including:

• ACDF surgery
• Discectomy
• Laminectomy
• Microdiscectomy
• Spinal fusion