TGH Spine Neurosurgery Program Surgeons Advance Evidence-Based Spine Care in the Tampa Bay Area and the State

MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINE CARE AND COMPLEX REVISIONS

Tampa General Hospital (TGH) spine neurosurgeons, in conjunction with USF Health Morsani College of Medicine spine surgeons, deliver comprehensive evaluation, treatment and management of degenerative cervical and lumbar conditions and complex spinal deformities, including tumors and infection. From kyphoplasty to tumor radiofrequency ablation and resections to Chiari decompression, Tampa General offers advanced thoracic and lumbar, cervical, intradural and non-spine technologies and treatments.

The spine neurosurgery program at TGH features high-level spine surgeons whose training and spine specific expertise helps advance evidence-based spine care in the Tampa Bay area and the state.

SURGICAL AND NON-SURGICAL SCOLIOSIS TREATMENTS

Led by Dr. Puya Alikhani, Director of Neurosurgical Spine at TGH and Director of the Spine Division at the USF Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa General Hospital offers surgical and non-surgical treatment options for adult and pediatric patients with mild to severe scoliosis. Treatments include:

• Minimally invasive spine surgery and open deformity surgery

• Body casting that is replaced every few months to correct spinal curvatures in the youngest patients as they grow

• Robotic-assisted spine surgery that uses imaging technology to help with surgical navigation

FULL RANGE OF MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINE SURGERY

Neurosurgeons at TGH perform more minimally invasive spine surgeries than virtually any other hospital in the region, including endoscopic laser spine surgery, where surgeons combine the use of a small fiberoptic camera (endoscope) and a laser to reduce or eliminate back pain.

Tampa General neurosurgeons also perform countless minimally invasive microdiscectomies, laminectomies, foraminotomies and lumbar fusions to treat spinal stenosis, scoliosis, degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis and other spinal conditions and issues.

Incisions of less than an inch reduce blood loss, pain and infection. Most patients can go home the same day and resume work and everyday activities within weeks, compared with open procedures that require long recoveries, medical management and lengthy hospital stays.