The UC Davis Spine Center provides patients with an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to spine wellness. Patients are cared for by nationally-recognized faculty physicians who utilize leading-edge facilities and technologies to treat patients. Supported by our compassionate, specialized advanced practice providers and our professional patient services team, patients receive world-class care right here in our community.

The center's highly experienced team of spine specialists and support staff work together to provide patients with consultation as quickly as possible, determine an accurate diagnosis and deliver the most effective treatments and therapies available.

In the process, neurosurgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, pain medicine physicians, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists, and radiologists work together as a team to create individualized short- and long-term care plans for each patient. 

All spine center patients have full access to convenient in-house support services, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, lab services, orthotics, and alternative and complementary therapies.

As part of the region's only academic medical center, the spine center offers patients of all ages access to dedicated physicians who are actively involved in the latest spine research and clinical trials, and to new and investigational diagnostics and treatments.

Sharing expertise with one of the nation's best — and inland Northern California's only — level I trauma center, the spine center is uniquely equipped to handle a broad range of spinal cases.

Learn about the conditions we treat and treatments we offer under the Treatments and Procedures tab above or find summary lists below.

Spine conditions we treat include:

• Adolescent spinal disorders (scoliosis, kyphosis)
• Adult scoliosis and kyphosis
• Back sprains and strains
• Bone spurs in neck or low back
• Cervical myeloradiculopathy
• Cervical spinal stenosis
• Chronic low back pain, which may include leg pain
• Chronic neck pain, which may include arm pain
• Compressed (pinched) nerves / chronic nerve pain
• Degenerative disc disease
• Facet Joint Syndromes
• Failed Back Syndrome/revision spine surgery
• Herniated discs (cervical, lumbar and thoracic)
• Osteomyelitis/Discitis
• Sacro-iliiac (SI) joint pain, which may include hip pain
• Spinal Cord Compression/Myelopathy
• Spinal stenosis
• Spinal tumors
• Spondylolisthesis
• Thoracic disc disease

Surgical treatments we offer include:

• Same day surgery and outpatient surgery
• Minimally invasive surgeries, including:
  • Endoscopic surgery, including cervical and lumbar endoscopy 
  • Minimally invasive lumbar fusion, including TLIF, ALIF, XLIF
  • Microdiscectomy (microdiskectomy), also called microdecompression, for lumbar spine
  • Laminectomy for lumbar spine
• Fusion surgeries, including:
  • Anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF)
  • Sacro-iliiac (SI) joint fusion
• Non-fusion surgery
• Cervical total disc replacement (cTDR)
• Motion sparing surgery
• Microsurgery
• Cervical (neck) surgery

The UC Davis Spine Center is committed to a team approach and works closely with patients and their primary care or referring physicians at each stage of the evaluation, treatment and follow-up care process. Please contact the UC Davis Spine Center for more information.