Comprehensive Spine Care

Whether you’ve taken a fall, lifted something too heavy or live with a spinal disorder, you need sustainable relief. 

Our experts offer traditional, minimally invasive and delicate surgeries to correct even unusual spine conditions.

Our approach to comprehensive spine care

At UCI Health, we keep you at the center of our expertise, not just your illness. 

We approach your medical care with empathy, deep listening and solid, state-of-the-art science. When recommending treatments, we also take your concerns and preferences into account. 

Our spine center 

When you come to a registered comprehensive spine center, you will be receiving expert care from multiple specialties. These specialists confer regularly, often weekly, to present you with the best possible treatment options.

The doctors in our Comprehensive Spine Center include:

• Interventional neuroradiologists (guide spine surgery with sophisticated imaging devices)
• Neurosurgeons
• Orthopaedic surgeons
• Physiatrists (to help you regain full functioning)
• Spine surgeons

The team keeps in close contact at each step, from your diagnosis to surgery to after-care.

Why choose UCI Health for comprehensive spine care?

Pioneering spine surgery

UCI Health spine specialists performed the first West Coast robot-assisted spinal surgery. We can perform any spine surgery, no matter how complex, with SpineAssist®. 

This highly sophisticated robotic guidance and imaging system helps us customize a plan we tailor to your anatomy. 

We can plot where to make incisions and place screw implants to within one millimeter as we stabilize your spine. This significantly lowers the rates of misplaced screws and neurological problems later.

This groundbreaking, minimally invasive procedure offers you:

• less pain 
• less radiation 
• faster recovery
• faster surgery with greater accuracy that needs fewer X-ray images 

We offer ultra minimally invasive surgeries

UCI Health is one of few hospitals in the nation to offer endoscopic spine surgery, an ultra-minimally invasive approach to spine care. 

This technique can have many benefits such as:

• minimized incision size
• faster recovery time
• discharge 24 hours of their procedure
• less postoperative pain
• decreased infection rates
• reduced blood loss
• preservation of spinal stability

Second opinion consultations

No one should get spine surgery without getting a second opinion. Our Comprehensive Spine Center also offers a special research study that evaluates the role second opinions play when deciding to get spine surgery. 

You can potentially get a high-level second opinion from an experienced surgeon before selecting your treatment. There is no cost to you.

To qualify, you:

• must have received a first opinion from another spine surgeon
• are willing to complete surveys on the effects of the second opinion you receive

To enroll in the second opinion research study, call our spine nurse coordinator at 657-601-2656.

World-class expertise

International colleagues routinely select our spine specialists to teach the state-of-the-art treatments we’ve developed. 

We also share our research and knowledge in books and industry publications. 

Academic medical center

As Orange County's only academic medical center, our doctors are leaders in research and innovation. They apply the latest findings directly to your care, ensuring you receive the most advanced treatments available.