About Ann Arbor Spine Center
A Spine Center Approach that Works
Four out of five Americans will have an attack of back pain during their lifetime. Many people are doomed to endless visits to the back doctor. That's because once you have your first back pain attack, you are four times more likely to have a recurrence. If you have back or neck pain, we are now in a position to help.
 Ann Arbor Spine Center, located in southeast Michigan with convenient locations in Ypsilanti, Brighton and Chelsea, is a by-product of discussions with case managers, rehab nurses and managed care experts on a local and national level who believe that spine care can be improved through a multidisciplinary "team" approach. This spine center is by no means complete. Rather, Ann Arbor Spine Center is a work in progress, where we hope to continue to improve spine care over the next 5 years for the benefit of those in the southeast Michigan region. Ann Arbor Spine Center includes a board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physician along with board-certified neurosurgeons and fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeons who specialize in spine, teamed with spine-specialized physical therapy.
The problem with back and neck pain is that care is often fragmented, forcing the patient to travel to multiple offices in the quest for relief of back pain. Patients often have to drive from a spine physician's office for X-rays, a second location for an MRI and a third location for pain-relieving injections. By putting all these services under one roof, the patient can benefit from improved coordination of care with the entire team of specialists in spine talking to each other about your case all in one location. The end result is that the patient is often able to return to activity with a non-surgical approach.
The Ann Arbor Spine Center physicians already see a variety of complex cases from across Eastern and Central Michigan. Ann Arbor Spine Center emphasizes a non-surgical approach to back pain, recognizing that in most cases spine surgery should be the last card to be played after non-surgical options have been tried. About half of patients are referred to Ann Arbor Spine Center (convenient locations in Ypsilanti, Chelsea and Brighton) by other doctors in the region.
How we are different
 Research has shown that complex problems such as back pain are treated more successfully with a multidisciplinary approach that combines the expertise of many back specialists. The strength of Ann Arbor Spine Center lies in the medical expertise brought in by a variety of specialists who complement each other.
Some back and neck pain symptoms can be relieved with special injections that enable a patient to bridge to therapy. Ann Arbor Spine Center makes use of cervical lumbar spinal injections and as well as myelograms, which may reveal the amount of damage in the spine. Therapists who specialize in spine use customized hands-on treatments to relieve pain symptoms, along with special exercises to help make the back stronger, more flexible and resistant to injury. If non-surgical treatments are not successful, the surgeons at Ann Arbor Spine Center are trained and proficient in the latest techniques in minimally invasive spine surgery. Because of the minimally invasive techniques, many patients are able to have their spine surgery and then return home the same day to recover in the comfort of their own house.
 Ann Arbor Spine Center physicians are able to care for any type of back or neck problem, from the simple back or neck strain all the way to the most complex spine surgery. This includes treatment of scoliosis and other types of spinal deformity. Because Ann Arbor Spine Center has MRI, X-ray and injection suite capabilities in close proximity, the back or neck pain patient no longer has to drive around town for care. Having all the necessary diagnostic testing and non-operative treatment under one roof eliminates multiple referrals, delayed care and confusion.
In some cases, a patient may have emergency symptoms that need to be seen within 24 hours by a spine specialist. This can include numbness, weakness or pain that extends down a leg or arm past the knee or elbow, or when you have loss of control of bowel or bladder. Secondly, any time a person has suffered a traumatic injury like an abrupt fall or car accident that causes back or neck pain, this is an emergency signal. This educational web site covers many of these symptoms related to back or neck pain problems.
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