Back pain is one of the most common reasons for health care visits. Fortunately, most back pain responds to conservative treatment.

For conditions that require surgery, Duke patients benefit from the experience of surgeons who perform thousands of procedures each year. The skilled surgeons at Duke specialize in minimally invasive spinal surgery for the treatment of disc disease, tumors, spinal stenosis, or fracture.

Our patients travel from across the country and around the world in order to experience the quality of medicine that Duke delivers.

Duke is not just a destination for patients who have already been diagnosed; as a level I trauma center, we are also a large referral center for injuries involving the neck and spine. No matter your condition, your injury will be approached with state-of-the-art instrumentation.

Conditions

The following is a list of conditions we treat:

• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Basilar invagination (cranial settling)
• Cervical and lumbar herniated discs
• Chordoma
• Degenerative disc disease (DDD) and other degenerative conditions
• Facet joint osteoarthritis
• Kyphosis
• Low back pain
• Myelopathy
• Neck pain
• Platybasia
• Primary and metastatic spinal column (bony) tumors
• Scoliosis
• Spinal cord trauma
• Spinal cord tumors
• Spinal dysraphism
• Spinal fractures
• Spinal stenosis
• Spondylolisthesis
• Spondylosis
• Thoracic discs

Treatments

The following is a list of treatments we offer:

• Anterior cervical discectomy
• Anterior lumbar interbody fusion
• Cervical and lumbar disc replacement
• Cervical foraminotomy
• Complex spinal reconstruction
• Comprehensive physical therapy programs
• Epidural steroid injections
• Facet injections
• Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty
• Lumbar microdiscectomy
• Minimally invasive spine surgery
• Nerve blocks
• Pain pumps
• Spinal cord stimulators
• Spinal deformity correction
• Spinal fusion
• Spinal radiosurgery

Appointments and Referrals

For help navigating Duke Spine Center resources, call 888-ASK DUKE (888-275-3853).

Physicians

Physicians offering this service include:

• Bagley, Carlos A.
  • Surgery / Neurosurgery
• Brown, Christopher R.
  • Orthopaedics
• Gottfried, Oren N.
  • Surgery / Neurosurgery
• Grossi, Peter M.
  • Surgery / Neurosurgery
• Haglund, Michael M.
  • Surgery / Neurosurgery
  • Neurobiology
• Isaacs, Robert E.
  • Surgery / Neurosurgery
• Keeler, Carolyn E.
  • Surgery / Neurosurgery
• Lad, Nandan
  • Surgery / Neurosurgery
• Lark, Robert K.
  • Orthopaedics
• Liu, Gloria G.
  • Orthopaedics
• Minchew, Joe T.
  • Orthopaedics
• Richardson, William J.
  • Orthopaedics
• Turner, Dennis A.
  • Surgery / Neurosurgery
  • Neurobiology

Locations

This service is available at:

• Duke Neurosciences/Spine
  Duke Clinic 1B / 1C, 30 Duke Medicine Circle, Durham, NC 27710
• Duke Neurosurgery of Raleigh
  3480 Wake Forest Road, Suite 410, Raleigh, NC 27609
• Duke Raleigh Hospital
  3400 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27609
• Duke University Hospital
  2301 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710
• Lenox Baker Children's Hospital
  3000 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27705