Spinal Disorders
Spinal disorders are associated with of patients who have cervical, lumbar or thoracic spinal disease. Back pain is the most common symptom in the United States today and this field relates to that condition directly.
Albany Med Advantage
Albany Medical Center offers a variety of different approaches for patients with spinal diseases. Total treatment of a patient with back pain includes education on how to minimize pain while establishing an accommodating, functional management approach. If a patient has not significantly improved, further steps may be recommended utilizing such diagnostic or treatment procedures as nerve conduction studies, MRI, CT, diagnostic discography, selective nerve blocks, facet joint blocks, and surgery.
An interdisciplinary approach is utilized to treat patients with spinal diseases. This includes pain management, physiatry, medicine and neurology, as well as neurological and orthopaedic surgeons. The Neurosciences Institute has three fellowship-trained spine neurosurgeons that specialize in different approaches to treatment of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. They have embraced the latest minimally-invasive approaches in order to treat spinal diseases with a smallest-possible injury and providing the shortest recovery for the patient.
The Neurosciences Institute team of spine specialists is involved in several studies and investigations for disk-replacement surgery and a number of trials regarding facet joint-replacement surgery. By collaborating with affiliates, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Spinal Disorders Research Department, the Neurosciences Institute team of neurosurgeons can better understand spinal diseases both from a mechanical perspective and from a spinal cord injury one as well.
