Dr. Spivak is a board-certified Neurosurgeon who specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery and stem cell therapies. He has dedicated himself to helping heal your back!

Back pain is a major source of pain and suffering throughout America. Almost everyone suffers from back pain at least at least once in his or her lifetime. Back pain can cause depression and cause problems with work and family. There is no reason to prolong your suffering, as many different treatments are available to provide you with back pain relief. The most common cause of back pain is caused by injury to the lower back. Damage to the disks is called Degenerative Disk Disease. Damaged disks can herniate and pinch spinal nerves. This can cause the searing pain in the legs known as sciatica. Sometimes chiropractic treatment or physical therapy will help relieve back pain, but sometimes interventional surgical procedures must be undertaken when a person does not recover after less intensive treatment. There are many types of invasive treatments, some of which can be quite effective but none of them actually repair the damaged disk. Much progress has been made in experimental stem cell treatments that can actually heal the damage that has been done to the disk, restoring it to like new condition. This procedure is called Disk Regeneration; it produces new disk cells inside the disk itself, so that it can rebuild itself. The Disk Regeneration procedure is short and minimally invasive. Bone marrow is extracted from the patients hip bone and stem cells are separated out using a centrifuge. The stem cells are then injected into the disk using the guidance of an x-ray. The patient is then free to go home and recover.

Dr. Spivak is known for his innovative minimally invasive approach to spine repair, as well as his focus on research and developing cutting edge endoscopic techniques.

Dr. Spivak began his study of medicine at theUniversity of Winnipeg and completed his residency in Neurological Surgery at theUniversity of Saskatchewan. He has also completed several fellowships at prestigious medical schools throughout the United States, where he further refined his surgical techniques.

He has also held several faculty positions at esteemed universities, including Stanford Medical School and Columbia Medical School, and has contributed to several clinical journals, such as the Journal of Neurosurgery.

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