Spine Care for Every Body
Back and neck pain or other spine conditions like arthritis or disc issues can prevent you from enjoying our great Colorado outdoors. Our whole-person, integrated approach at AdventHealth Avista, brings together experts in neurosurgery and pain management to help you find lasting relief. With some of the nation’s top neurosurgeons, experts in imaging and pain management, you can feel confident you’ll have all the support you need to return to the activities you love.
We’re here to help you find the right spine specialist or a location that’s convenient for you.
A Range of Spine Treatment Options
Combining the talents and expertise of specialized nurses, dedicated surgical teams, in-depth patient educators, and world-class neurosurgeons, we offer a complete continuum of spine care tailored to your unique needs.
- Our Expert Spine Surgery Team
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Our expert team includes highly skilled physicians who provide the expertise and individual care that patients expect. Our doctors are supported by a multidisciplinary team whose care improves outcomes and moves patients toward a successful recovery.
Our physician team includes:- Neurosurgeons with fellowship training in spine surgery
- Interventional pain management specialists
- Interventional radiologists
Our care team includes:
- Anesthesia
- Case managers and social workers with expertise in understanding spine patients’ needs
- Complementary, whole-person care to support the patient in body, mind and spirit
- Dedicated spine-certified physician assistant
- Neuroscience service line director
- Pharmacy
- Physical, occupational and speech therapists who specialize in spine disorders
- Registered dietitians
- Spine clinical coordinator
- Specialized nursing staff with training in spine care and preoperative assessments
- Surgical technologists
- Spine Surgery
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Our neurosurgeons are fellowship trained in spine surgery and skilled in minimally invasive, traditional and the most current fusion procedures. This range of capabilities, recognized by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield as well as UnitedHealthcare, ensures you’ll get world-class care and a treatment approach that’s just right for you.
Options for surgical correction of spinal damage or disease include:
- Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF)
- Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF)
- Artificial disc replacement (ADR/cervical and lumbar)
- Bone grafts and synthetic bone grafts
- Cervical corpectomy
- Deformity correction
- Discectomies (with or without fusion)
- Dynamic stabilization techniques
- Endoscopic microdiscectomy
- Lumbar spine facetectomy, foraminotomy, laminectomy and microdiscectomy
- Oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF)
- Posterior cervical spine facetectomy, foraminotomy and laminectomy
- Posterior cervical laminoplasty and microdiscectomy
- Posterior lumbar interbody fusion
- Sacroiliac joint fusion
- Spinal fusion
- Spinal motion preservation
- Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF)
- Implanted device designed to provide pain relief for spinal stenosis
- Robotic-Assisted Spine Surgery
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Minimally invasive procedures, with their smaller incisions, can pose a challenge to surgeons due to the limited view of the patient’s anatomy. But robotic technology can help us overcome this challenge with 3D comprehensive surgical planning and analytics, giving the surgeon complete information and visualization before surgery begins. It also allows greater precision during your procedure.
At AdventHealth Avista, we’re a leader in spine surgery — and are pleased to be among the first to offer the latest surgical technology to our community.
Mazor X Stealth™ Edition Robotic Guidance System
Our spine surgeons at AdventHealth Avista are pleased to offer spinal surgery with the Mazor X Stealth™ Edition robotic guidance platform. With the assistance of the new robot, surgeons can more precisely track the position of instruments in relation to a patient’s anatomy, improving accuracy.
This robot gives our patients the latest in medical technology, as good as anywhere in the world. You can schedule spine surgery close to home with the confidence our surgical team has access to leading-edge technology and tools for the best possible outcomes. - Pre-Surgery Education
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We offer pre-operative education, so you know what to expect before, during and after your procedure. You can attend a virtual pre-operative spine surgery education class or watch our prep video online. Classes are free, and registration is required to attend the course.
Spine Care Services We Offer
- Advanced robotic and image-guided neurosurgery
- Brain and spine tumors
- Cervical artificial disc replacement
- Cervical and lumbar diskectomy
- Cervical and lumbar radiculopathy
- Cervical spine procedures, minimally invasive procedures
- Cervical stenosis
- Customized spinal implants and surgical treatment plans
- Degenerative scoliosis reconstruction
- Kyphoplasty, bone biopsy and radio frequency ablation for cancer
- Lumbar and cervical fusion/reconstruction
- Lumbar and cervical surgical decompression
- Lumbar degenerative disk disease
- Lumbar stenosis
- Meningiomas
- SI joint fusion
- Spine and brain oncology
- Spine and complex spine conditions
- Spondylolisthesis
Recognized as an Orthopedic and Spine Center of Excellence
AdventHealth Avista has been designated as an Advanced Orthopedic and Spine Center of Excellence by DNV Healthcare. DNV is an international certification specialty company, certifying health care facilities all over the globe, including specialty areas such as orthopedic and neuro/spine programs. The designation of “Advanced Orthopedic and Spine Center of Excellence” has only been given to 12 hospitals worldwide, 11 other hospitals in the United States, and AdventHealth Avista — the first facility in Colorado.
Spine Care Specialists Devoted to You
Our multidisciplinary approach to spine care includes specialists like interventional pain management specialists, interventional radiologists, neurosurgeons and anesthesiologists, who provide the expertise and individualized care you deserve.
These physicians are supported by a team whose specialty care improves outcomes and helps patients move toward recovery.
Our Spine Care Locations
AdventHealth Avista AdventHealth Avista
Formerly known as Avista Adventist Hospital
Spine Care You Can Count On
The recovery journey from surgery takes more than rest and physical therapy. It requires mental effort, too. But don’t worry. You’ve got us on your team. With a multidisciplinary approach to care, we reach across specialties and locations to give you the support you need to thrive. No matter what’s on your chart or your mind, we’re here for you every step of the way.