The Spine Hospital at NewYork-Presbyterian / ColumbiaDoctors

Comprehensive Spine Care

The team of ColumbiaDoctors spine specialists:

  • 9 orthopedic surgeons and 6 neurosurgeons, including 8 specializing in care of children
  • 6 adult and two pediatric physiatrists
  • 5 pain management specialists
  • 7 neurologists
  • 15 surgical team members evaluate and treat adult and pediatric surgical patients in:
    • Manhattan
    • Westchester
    • Stamford, CT
    • Bergen County, NJ
  • Operate at:
    • The Spine Hospital at NYP/Allen Hospital
    • The Spine Hospital at NYP/Neurological Institute
    • The Spine Hospital at NYP/Milstein Hospital
    • The Spine Hospital at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
  • Nonoperative care is offered for back and neck pain, chronic pain management, and neuromuscular conditions is provided by 20 ColumbiaDoctors specialists and supporting teams of physical therapists, occupational therapists, and Schroth therapists

Treatments and conditions

The Spine Hospital at NYP offers treatment for the entire gamut of spine conditions, from non-operative care for common arthritic and degenerative disorders to rare and difficult-to-treat spinal deformities and spinal cord tumors.

Surgical treatments include:

  • Discectomies and disc replacements
  • Spinal fusions – from minimally invasive to complex multi-level instrumentation
  • Laminectomy, foraminotomy, laminoplasty
  • Complex carpentry of the spinal column including vertebral column resection

The latest in diagnostic, therapeutic, and surgical technology:

  • EOS Imaging (low dose, full body, 3D x-rays)
  • Guided injections
  • MAGEC growing-rods to reduce the number and frequency of invasive surgeries in young children with spinal deformities
  • State-of-the-art neural monitoring
  • Latest in intra-operative imaging
  • Advanced robotic surgical techniques, including the first in the greater New York area to offer Mazor robotic technology
  • Operating rooms purposely built for spine surgery