Highly Skilled Physician Specialists
We know each patient we serve is facing a unique challenge in terms of discomfort and disability. Having an experienced team of specialists and advanced imaging and surgical technology enables us to customize care to that individual level.
To find the spine surgery you need close to home, rely on Avista spine experts.
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Spine Conditions We Treat
Along with medication and therapeutic measures, we provide surgical care for:
- Bone spurs
- Degenerative spine conditions including arthritis, ruptured discs, scoliosis and misalignment
- Nerve root compression with radiating pain
- Radiculopathy in the arm or leg
- Spinal cord compression
- Spinal cord tumors
- Spinal fractures
- Spinal instability
- Spinal malformations
- Spinal stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis
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Conservative Spine Treatment Options
Our goal is to provide each patient in our care the pain relief they need in the most conservative way possible. The following programs and procedures are provided on an outpatient basis:
- Facet Injections
- Pain Management
- Pain Psychology
- Physical Therapy
We also offer ERAS—Enhanced Recovery After Surgery. This comprehensive pathway approach to healing is patient centered and based upon the most recent medical evidence. It’s designed to help each of our patients feel more confident in advance of the procedure, recover more quickly, return to their daily activities faster and manage stress resulting from the surgical experience.
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Spine Surgery with Robotic Guidance
Avista Adventist Hospital offers an innovative robotic solution to spine surgery. The robotic guidance platform combines pre-operative planning tools and analytics with intra-operative guidance, giving our spine surgeons advanced options. This technology allows for additional minimally invasive techniques for better outcomes and shorter recovery times for our patients.
Minimally-invasive procedures, with their smaller incisions, can pose a challenge to surgeons due to the limited view of the patient’s anatomy. Our technology helps to overcome this challenge with a 3D comprehensive surgical plan and analytics, which gives the surgeon comprehensive information and visualization before the surgery starts. Consequently, the Platform supports surgeons’ commitment to operate with precision.
Avista Adventist Hospital is a leader in spine surgery, and we are proud to be among the first in offering the latest surgical technology to our community in order to provide enhanced surgical care.
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Spine Surgeries Available
A Full Range of Surgical Procedures
The Neurosurgeons and Orthopedic surgeons at Avista Adventist Hospital are Fellowship trained in spine surgery and skilled in minimally invasive, traditional and the most current fusion procedures. This range of capability ensures you the most appropriate approach to surgical correction of spinal damage or disease. Among the spine procedures we perform are:
- 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 (technology used as an alternative to spinal fusion)
- Endoscopic microdiscectomy (minimally invasive)
- 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 (minimally invasive)
- Spinal fusion
- Spinal motion preservation
- Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)
- X Stop™ (an implanted device designed to provide pain relief for spinal stenosis
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Expert Spine Surgery Team
Our expert team includes highly skilled physician specialists who provide both expertise and individual care that patients expect. Physicians are supported with a full multidisciplinary team whose specialty care improves outcomes and moves patients toward a successful recovery.
Our physician team includes:
- Neurosurgeons with Fellowship training in spine surgery
- Orthopedic surgeons with Fellowship training in spine surgery
- Interventional pain management specialists
- Interventional radiologists
Our team includes:
- Anesthesia
- Case managers and social workers with expertise in understanding of the spine patient's needs
- Complementary, whole-person care to support the patient in mind, body and spirit
- Dedicated Ortho/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
