Spine Care in Louisville

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

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

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.

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.