Spinal Service

Our spinal service at The Duchy Hospital in Harrogate offers fast, accurate diagnosis, expert advice and access to advanced treatment for spinal conditions such as back, neck and arm pain, sciatica and osteoporosis.

We bring together a team of experts to focus on you and your spinal problem. This multi-disciplinary team includes an endoscopic spinal surgeon, neurosurgeon, orthopaedic surgeon, pain consultant, radiologists and physiotherapists. We give you immediate access to the best available methods to identify the cause of your pain, including dynamic x-rays, MRI scanning and techniques to enable you guide the surgeon to the exact source of your pain.

We offer you careful treatment pathways based upon expert multidisciplinary spinal rehabilitation, pain management and experienced endoscopic spinal surgery which usually avoids the need for open surgery such as microdiscectomy, fusion or total disc replacement.

Some of the problems treated include:

• Slipped disc
• Disc protrusion
• Axial stenosis (Spinal canal narrowing)
• Sciatica
• Back, neck and arm pain
• Lateral recess stenosis (Leg weakness)
• Spondylolytic spondylolisthesis
• Failed pain management
• Failed spine surgery
• Osteoporotic fractures
• Spine instability

The Duchy Hospital offers access to leading consultants and outstanding facilities. You can be assured of the highest levels of care provided.

Treatments include:

• Anterolateral foraminotomy
• Back pain
• Cervical spine surgery
• Discectomy
• Endoscopic Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery Lower Back
• Epidural for back pain
• Lumbar laminectomy
• Lumbar microdiscectomy
• Lumbar spinal decompression
• Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery MISS

For more information on our spinal surgery service, please call us on 01423 567136 or make an online enquiry here.