Introducing Joseph Spine Institute’s New Endoscopic Spine Center of Excellence

13 Sep 2024 Back Pain, Endoscopic Spine Surgery, Endoscopy, Kyphoplasty, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Outpatient, Pain Management, Revision Surgery, Sciatica, Scoliosis, Spine News

Innovative Leaders in Minimally Invasive Spine Care: Introducing Joseph Spine Institute’s (JSI) New Endoscopic Spine Center of Excellence

Joseph Spine Institute, a leading provider of comprehensive spine care services, is proud to announce the opening of its new Endoscopic Spine Center. Above all, the center is dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of spine conditions using minimally invasive endoscopic techniques.

Tampa’s Endoscopic Center of Excellence

The Endoscopic Spine Center, founded by Dr. Samuel Joseph, is the latest addition to Joseph Spine Institute’s range of services and represents a significant advancement in spine care. With endoscopic spine surgery, patients can benefit from smaller incisions, reduced blood loss, faster recovery times, and less postoperative pain than traditional open spine surgery, as a result patient outcomes and financial expenditure is positively affected.   The center isstaffed by the best board-certified spine surgeons who are trained in the latest endoscopic techniques, ensuring that patients receive the highest quality care.

According to Dr. Samuel Joseph, Founder of Joseph Spine Institute, “The opening of our Endoscopic Spine Center represents a significant milestone for our practice. We are proud to be at the forefront of spine care, and we are committed to providing our patients with the most advanced and effective treatments available.”

Key Benefits of Endoscopic Spine Surgery

Key features and benefits of endoscopic spine surgery include:

  • Minimally Invasive: Endoscopic spine surgery requires smaller incisions compared to traditional open surgeries, resulting in less damage to surrounding muscles and tissues. This often leads to reduced postoperative pain, shorter hospital stays, and quicker recovery times.
  • Precise Visualization: The high-definition camera on the endoscope provides magnified, detailed images of the spine, allowing the surgeon to precisely navigate and perform the necessary procedures with accuracy.
  • Targeted Treatment: Endoscopic spine surgery enables surgeons to target specific areas of the spine while sparing healthy tissue, minimizing the risk of complications and maximizing the effectiveness of the treatment.
  • Reduced Blood Loss: The minimally invasive nature of endoscopic spine surgery typically results in less blood loss during the procedure, reducing the need for blood transfusions and lowering the risk of complications associated with excessive bleeding.
  • Customized Approach: Endoscopic spine surgery can be tailored to meet the individual needs of each patient, with procedures ranging from simple discectomies to more complex spinal fusions, depending on the underlying spinal condition.
  • Improved Function: Less healing time. Surgeons often do not have to cut through muscles to complete the procedure, leading to less tissue damage, minimal pain and a quicker recovery.

Offering a Wide Range of Endoscopic Spine Procedures

Endoscopic spine surgery, like many minimally invasive spine procedures, is a versatile technique used to treat various spinal disorders and conditions causing back pain or nerve dysfunction.

Determining if you’re a suitable candidate for endoscopic spine surgery depends on factors such as your symptoms, how they affect your daily life, your overall health, and other considerations.

However, due to the benefits of minimally invasive procedures, such as lower blood loss, smaller incisions, and quicker recovery times, endoscopic spine surgery can often be an option for patients who are too ill or frail for traditional open surgery.

For those who are eligible, endoscopic spine surgery can potentially treat conditions including:

  • Degenerative Disc Disease: This condition involves the gradual deterioration and stiffening of spinal discs with age, exacerbated by factors like tissue damage, repetitive strain, obesity, improper lifting, sports injuries, and accidents.
  • Disc Herniation: Also known as a herniated disc, this occurs when a damaged disc bulges and presses on the spinal cord or nerve roots, causing pain. It can be treated with an endoscopic discectomy, where the protruding portion or the entire disc is removed and possibly replaced with an artificial disc.
  • Spinal Stenosis: This condition involves the narrowing of the spinal canal due to bone spurs, which irritate the spinal cord or nerves. Lumbar spinal stenosis affects the lower back, while cervical spinal stenosis affects the neck.
  • Spinal Instability: Endoscopic spinal fusion can correct this by using medical hardware to permanently join an unstable vertebra to a stable one.
  • Spinal Fractures
  • Congenital Spinal Deformities
  • Traumatic Injuries: This includes injuries to the vertebrae, soft tissues, or spinal column.
  • Spinal Tumors

Endoscopic spine surgery offers a less invasive alternative with numerous benefits for suitable patient

The opening of the Endoscopic Spine Center is a reflection of Joseph Spine Institute’s commitment to innovation and excellence in spine care. The center will provide patients with the most advanced endoscopic techniques, ensuring that they receive the best possible care for their spine conditions.

For more information about the Endoscopic Spine Center or to schedule a consultation, please visit the Joseph Spine Institute website or call (813) 534-6269.

About Dr. Samuel A. Joseph, Jr.

Dr. Samuel Joseph

Founder, Joseph Spine Institute

Dr. Joseph is the founder of Joseph Spine Institute and the International Spine Foundation. He is dedicated to pioneering minimally invasive, outpatient surgical procedures. Dr. Joseph is at the forefront of endoscopic spine surgery and a team physician for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Dr. Joseph’s practice includes the specialized, conservative, and surgical care of patients. Treatment includes therapeutic injections, disc replacement surgery, minimally invasive techniques, and complex reconstruction of adult and pediatric spinal disorders. 

Dr. Joseph has used his training and experience to become a leader nationwide on revision surgery for patients who have experienced failed surgery in the past. These patients have traveled to see Dr. Joseph not only from the Tampa Bay area, but from other areas of Florida and across the country as well.

About Joseph Spine Institute

 Joseph Spine Institute (JSI) was founded in 2016 by Dr. Samuel Joseph. He has assembled a comprehensive team of highly skilled spine specialists that are devoted to offering the highest level of spine care available today. He has also strategically partnered with some of the most innovative leaders in the spine care industry today in order to bring our patients the latest in technology, products and resources.

From state-of-the-art technology, to alternate therapies and interventional pain management treatments our industry leading spine care practice offers our patients a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of spinal conditions. Our highly-trained surgeons offer an integrated approach to patients that includes surgical and non-surgical options such as pain management and physical therapy.

 

 

 

Kyphoplasty Outpatient Procedure for Compression Fractures

24 Aug 2021 Kyphoplasty, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Outpatient

Kyphoplasty is a minimally invasive surgery used to treat spinal compression fractures.

In this video Dr.  Thuy Nguyen will explain a minimally invasive treatment option for compression fractures, called Kyphoplasty.

Spinal compression fractures occur primarily in spinal vertebrae that have been weakened by osteoporosis. Compression fractures typically occur in the thoracic region of the spine, which includes the T1 through T12 vertebrae, but may also occur in the lumbar spine, including L1 through L5.

Kyphoplasty not only repairs the injury but also prevents worsening deformity and malalignment using a synthetic polymer and helps prevent future problems. This minimally invasive procedure uses orthopedic cement or new bone substitute materials to “rebuild” the vertebral space lost as a result of the compression fracture. The procedure relieves pain, restores height, and stabilizes the vertebrae.
In the procedure, the patient lies face down on the operating table. The surgeon makes a small, half-centimeter incision over the affected area.

Kyphoplasty is performed under local or general anesthesia. Small incisions are made on your back. Using image guided x-ray technology a narrow tube is threaded through the incision to the fractured vertebra. A special balloon or an articulating needle is inserted through the tube into the vertebra and gently inflated and creates a cavity to help restore the vertebral body height and creates a channel for the bone cement or glue.
Next, the needle is removed and the space is filled with a medical grade bone cement (polymethylmethacrylate, PMMA). The cement quickly hardens, mending the fracture creating an internal cast inside of the fractured vertebra, which usually takes about 5 minutes.

My patients go home the same day as the procedure. As a neurosurgeon I can be a valuable source to answer your questions about symptoms, treatment and your healthcare. If you would like more information about treating spine compression fractures or other painful spine issue please feel free to contact our office by the phone number on your screen or request an appointment at JosephSpine.com.

Treating Compression Fracture with Kyphoplasty vs. Bracing

10 May 2021 Kyphoplasty, Spine News

Vertebral Compression Fractures: Bracing vs Outpatient Kyphoplasty

written by: Dr. Thuy M. Nguyen

What is a compression fracture?

A compression fracture is a fracture involving the front third of your vertebral body. This will commonly have an appearance of wedging on X-ray. Compression fractures can be very painful with associated point tenderness.

Bracing Compression Fractures

Kyphoplasty is a minimally invasive spine procedure for treating compression fractures. As compression fractures are usually stable, I typically like to treat these with bracing and analgesics. We will do a trial of conservative management as surgery should be a last resort. Bracing is employed to decrease motion at the fracture which is responsible for inducing pain. A back brace also serves to reduce repetitive “microfractures”. If the back brace and conservative management is not reducing the amount of pain to satisfaction, then a discussion regarding a kyphoplasty should be undertaken.

What is Kyphoplasty?

Kyphoplasty is a minimally invasive procedure that I do in the office with a local numbing medication. No general anesthesia is used to ensure quicker recovery and a same day procedure as well as avoids all the risk factors and side effects that accompany general anesthesia. My patients will come into the office for the procedure and leave after the procedure.  The kyphoplasty is done under xray or fluoroscopy in order to guide the needle into the correct location. A cavity is created within the vertebral body and a synthetic medical grade “cement” is introduced. This “cement” is polymethlymethacrylate or PMMA.  The PMMA will mend the fractured pieces together and therefore stop motion at these fracture segments which is responsible for the pain.

About Dr. Thuy M. Nguyen

Dr. Nguyen received his training in neurosurgery in a highly sought after residency program at Beaumont Health in Detroit. He then pursued a fellowship in orthopaedic spine surgery at the Oregon Health and Science University. He brings a unique set of spine-focused clincal acumen to Joseph Spine Institute.

About Joseph Spine Institute

Joseph Spine Institute is the advanced center for spine, scoliosis and minimally invasive spine surgery. Founded by Dr. Samuel A. Joseph, Jr., a fellowship trained, board-certified orthopedic surgeon. Dr. Joseph has assembled a comprehensive team of highly skilled spine specialists that are devoted to offering the highest level of spine care available today. He has also strategically partnered with some of the most innovative leaders in the spine care industry today in order to bring our patients the latest in technology, products and resources.

From state-of-the-art technology, to alternate therapies and interventional pain management treatments our industry leading spine care practice offers our patients a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of spinal conditions. Our highly-trained surgeons offer an integrated approach to patients that includes surgical and non-surgical options such as pain management and physical therapy.

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