The Spine Center

Your spine is your support structure. It helps keep you standing straight. Similar to a one-inch diameter cable, it connects your brain to the rest of your body. From your spine, nerves extend out to the muscles, skin and bones, to control movement, receive sensations and regulate bodily excretions and secretions.

Obviously, spine health is critical to your quality of life.
Yet sciatica, lower back pain, neck pain and pinched nerves are conditions that affect millions of people every year-approximately sixty-five million Americans suffer from back pain. It's the second most common reason for medical visits.

If you have suffered from these or other spinal ailments, you may have wondered where to turn for relief. Friends and relatives offer advice: chiropractors, acupuncturists, pain medication, physical therapists-what about a yoga instructor?

May we suggest, instead, you begin at the Florida Hospital Altamonte Spine Center?
Our team of spinal specialists, including orthopedic surgeons and a wealth of medical professionals with experience in spinal treatment, helps patients determine underlying conditions causing neck and back problems, and provides treatments to alleviate pain, lack of mobility, and treat disease conditions of the spine.

Florida Hospital Altamonte Spine Center offers minimally invasive procedures
Where appropriate, some back surgeries, such as microdiscectomy for a herniated disc and scoliosis surgery, can be performed as minimally invasive procedures. These procedures allow for a quick recovery, less pain and a shorter hospital stay. More traditional, extensive types of surgery such as posterolateral fusion for degenerative disc disease require a longer recovery time.

Understanding your surgery options will help you decide on the best course of action.
Florida Hospital Altamonte Spine Center offers a team of spine experts who offer innovative, advanced care; these spine specialists place a wide array of information directly in your hands, such as:

• which pain medications are most appropriate and helpful
• a recommended course of physical therapy
• the use of acupuncture, spinal injection and other therapies

As with every other department at Florida Hospital Altamonte, patients of our Spinal Services department have access to leading-edge diagnostic tools and treatments-in a facility equipped with the latest medical technology. Our patients and their families receive compassionate, innovative care.

For more information, Visit www.floridahospitalspine.com or call The Spine Center at 407-303-2200.