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Collaborative Comprehensive Approach to Your Care

At the UC Davis Spine Center, you receive expert, coordinated care from a group of the nation’s leading spine surgeons. We combine advanced technology with proven expertise to deliver world-class spine care close to your home. From diagnosis through recovery, access convenient, state-of-the-art services, including physical and occupational therapy, lab testing, orthotics, and complementary therapies.

Why Choose UC Davis Spine Center

As part of the region’s only academic medical center, the Spine Center provides patients of all ages access to leading-edge research, clinical trials, and advanced diagnostics and treatments. In partnership with inland Northern California’s only level I trauma center, our team is uniquely equipped to treat the full range of spinal conditions.

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
    • Tubular decompression for lumbar and cervical spine
  • Spine surgeries, including:
    • Anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF)
    • Cervical laminoplasty
    • Cervical (neck) surgery
    • Cervical total disc replacement (cTDR)
    • Deformity corrections
    • Lumbar total disc replacement
    • Microsurgery
    • Motion sparing surgery
    • Non-fusion surgery
    • Sacro-iliiac (SI) joint fusion
    • Spine or spinal cord tumor resection

Spine Conditions We Treat Include:

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