The medical experts at Ochsner's Back and Spine Center treat a variety of conditions, including:

• Neck and back pain
• Degenerative diseases of the spine
• Spinal deformities including:
  • Complex adult spinal deformity
  • Complex pediatric spinal deformity
  • Chin on chest deformity
• Scoliosis
• Sagittal imbalance (when the spine is curved in such a way that you cannot stand up straight)
• Kyphosis (an exaggerated, forward rounding of the upper back)
• Cervical and lumbar disc herniations
• Traumatic spinal fractures including:
• Cervical fractures
• Thoracic fractures
• Lumbar fractures
• Spinal infections
• Tumors including:
  • Spinal tumors
  • Metastatic (cancer that has spread) and primary tumors
  • Tumors arising from neural structures
• Tumors affecting the spinal column
• Chiari malformations (structural defects in the base of the skull and cerebellum)
• Nerve injuries and nerve tumors
• Carpal tunnel and other nerve entrapment neuropathies (conditions in which a nerve becomes compressed, or entrapped between two other structures in the body)
• Radiculopathy (pinched nerve)
• Spinal stenosis (a narrowing of the spaces in your spine)
• Cervical dystonia (rare movement disorder that causes neck muscles to contract involuntarily)
• Sacroiliac joint pain (pain arising from the sacroiliac joint is one of the potential causes of low back pain)
• Spondylolisthesis (when one of the bones in your spine — called a vertebra — slips forward and out of place)
• Migraines
• Trigeminal neuralgia (a chronic pain condition that affects the trigeminal or fifth cranial nerve, one of the most widely distributed nerves in the head)
• Spinal infections

We prioritize finding the proper treatment for your neck and back pain, reserving surgery for when it's genuinely needed. Our expert team guides and supports you when that time comes.

Ochsner's spine surgeons are skilled in using advanced and minimally invasive techniques that lead to better results and faster recovery times for our patients.

We offer a variety of surgical and nonsurgical treatments to fit each patient's needs, including:

Surgical treatments:

• Discectomy
• Disc replacement
• Kyphoplasty
• Laminectomy
• Minimally invasive spine surgery
• Robotic spine surgery
• Sacroiliac (SI) Joint Fusion
• Spinal cord stimulation
• Spinal fusion
• Spinal reconstruction
• Vertebroplasty

Nonsurgical treatments:

• Botox therapy for migraines
• Dry needling
• Iovera – cryotherapy
• Massage
• Nerve blocks
• Platelet-Rick Plasma
• Radiofrequency ablation/rhizotomy
• Steroid injections
• Therapeutic exercise
• Viscosupplementation injections

Take a virtual tour of our back and spine physical rehabilitation facility on the Northshore.