Spine and Back

Mount Sinai is a national leader in minimally invasive spinal surgery, and has often been the first hospital in the region to offer many state-of-the-art procedures, thanks to the expertise and dedication of its orthopaedic spinal surgeons, who are among the most experienced in the nation.

Surgeries that only a few years ago required a 12-inch incision, a week in the hospital and six months of recuperation are now performed through a one-inch incision with patients leaving the hospital after two days and going back to work after two weeks.

These remarkable advances in the field of spinal surgery are thanks in part to Mount Sinai’s doctors, who have helped to develop some of the innovative minimally invasive techniques.

A few of the minimally invasive spinal surgery techniques performed at Mount Sinai are:

XLIF (Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion)
Allows the surgeon to go in laterally to reach the affected area of spine instead of going in through abdomen or back muscle. Mount Sinai was the first hospital in Florida and one of the first in the nation to offer this procedure in June 2004, which a Mount Sinai surgeon helped develop.

AxiaLIF
Anterior fusion of bottom disk through small incision without disrupting nerves in the back. A Mount Sinai surgeon was the first in the Southeast to offer this procedure, beginning in spring 2005.

Kyphoplasty
Cements spinal compression fractures, which are usually due to osteoporosis of the spine. A Mount Sinai surgeon has performed more of these procedures than any other surgeon in the state.

Spineoplasty
An innovative new treatment for compression fractures in which the fracture is stabilized by bone granules in a mesh bag that expands.

TLIF (Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion)
A procedure in which the removal of the posterior arch of a vertebra is combined with spinal fusion.