Degenerative Spine Diseases
At NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, our Och Spine experts have extensive experience offering non-surgical and surgical treatments for herniated discs, arthritis, sciatica, spinal stenosis, and other degenerative spine disorders. When surgery is necessary, we offer the latest in minimally invasive spine surgical techniques that result in less pain and a faster recovery after surgery so you can return to the activities you love.
Degenerative Conditions We Treat
Our Och Spine experts care for patients with:
- Low back pain
- Neck pain
- Herniated discs and radiculopathy
- Neurogenic claudication
- Cervical myelopathy
- Upper and lower extremity weakness
- Degenerative disc disease
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Pseudoarthrosis and revision surgery
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Spinal stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Facet arthropathy
- Synovial cyst
- Ventral spinal cord herniation
- Os odontoideum
- Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament
- Sciatica and pinched nerves
Our Team
Specialties
Spinal Surgery
Affiliations
NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN QUEENS
Specialties
Orthopedic Surgery
Affiliations
NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN QUEENS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation at Weill Cornell Medicine
Specialties
Sports Medicine & Spine/Interventional Procedures
Affiliations
NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN QUEENS
Chief of Neurological Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery - Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
Specialties
Neurological Surgery
Affiliations
NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN QUEENS
Our Approach to Degenerative Spine Disorders
We begin your treatment with conservative therapies, such as physical therapy, injections, and pain management. If non-surgical therapies are not successful, our surgeons perform minimally invasive procedures to relieve pressure on the spinal cord or spinal nerves and microdiscectomy to remove the herniated portions of a damaged disc. Our spine surgeons are highly experienced performing:
- 3D-navigation for spine surgery
- Endoscopic and minimally-invasive disc resection
- Endoscopic and minimally-invasive laminectomy
- Endoscopic and minimally-invasive foraminotomy
- Artificial disc replacement
- Microsurgery
- Anterior corpectomy, discectomy, and decompression surgery
- Laminectomy, laminoplasty, and laminotomy
- Minimally invasive spine fusion