All spinal problems, whether neck pain or back pain, you can be confident that the Spinal Cord System Center, Phyathai 3 Hospital is ready to provide comprehensive treatment. Besides the importance we place on the spine, we are also specialized in the spinal cord system because we have a team of surgeons and neurosurgeons ready to provide spinal surgery treatment for everyone with minimal injury, fastest recovery, and most appropriate care.
Expertise… at every level of treatment
The Spinal Cord System Center offers diagnosis and treatment of spinal diseases by a team of highly experienced specialists, including neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons, along with multidisciplinary professionals who provide care at every step. We use advanced technology for diagnosis and treatment. Our medical team is skilled in treating all levels, both general treatment and surgical methods. Therefore, every patient receives a thorough diagnosis to find the true cause of the disease and select the best and most appropriate treatment plan for each individual.
Principles of spinal surgery
- Decompression (relieving pressure on the nervous system)
- Spinal cord, Nerve roots
- Anterior (front part of the spinal cord), Posterior (back part of the spinal cord), Anterior + Posterior (front and back parts of the spinal cord)
- Fusion (joint fusion, stabilizing the spine)
- Without instrumentation
- With instrumentation: Cervical plate, Pedicle screw, ACDF, PDF
- Deformity correction (correcting lumbar spine deformities)
- Scoliosis, Kyphosis (spinal curvature surgery)
- Arthroplasty (artificial spinal joint replacement)
Endoscopic surgery, technology that increases patient safety
In cases where medication and physical therapy are ineffective, we are ready to perform surgery using modern techniques that cause minimal injury, small incisions, and fast recovery. This is the approach of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery using Microscope and Endoscope techniques, along with computer-assisted surgical navigation (Navigator). With advanced tools, the surgical wounds are smaller, patients experience less trauma, and complications from large wounds are reduced, making surgery safer for patients.
Distinctive strengths of the MINI Spine Center at Phyathai 3 Hospital
The Spine Center at Phyathai Hospital does not focus solely on the spine but also places equal importance on the spinal cord system because it is a crucial part connected to the brain. The Spine Center medical team is not only specialized in the spine but also in the brain, enabling comprehensive treatment of diseases related to the spinal nerves and connected areas.
Readiness of the MINI Spine Center
To address the fears and many questions about spinal surgery, such as large wounds, safety, long recovery, and blood loss, the Spine Center medical team aims to eliminate these concerns for patients. We believe the best treatment is to cure patients without surgery or with minimal surgical damage. This is achieved through minimally invasive spinal surgery using high-magnification endoscopic techniques and high-efficiency X-RAY machines, resulting in progressively smaller surgical wounds and fewer complications from large wounds. Our surgical team has extensive experience with various endoscopic surgeries. Our strength lies in having specialists with nearly 20 years of daily experience using the Microscope, as well as expertise in Endoscope and Navigator for brain and spinal surgeries.
Surgical services provided by the Spinal Cord System Center include:
- Endoscopic/Microscopic spinal surgery (Endoscopic Discectomy/Microdiscectomy)
- Artificial cervical disc replacement surgery ACDF (Anterior Cervical Discectomy And Fusion)
- Minimally invasive pedicle screw fixation spinal surgery
- Laminectomy spinal surgery
- Kyphoplasty (vertebral body cement injection)
- Minimally invasive TLIF (Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion) for spinal dislocation
- Accidents involving the neck and spinal cord down to the coccyx
- Degenerative disc disease compressing nerves in the neck or back
- Spinal cord tumors
- Treatment of back pain from torn disc membranes (Percutaneous Nucleoplasty)
Pain management design
For surgeries requiring standard open incisions, besides focusing on minimizing injury for faster recovery, we aim for patients to recover without enduring pain from surgical wounds by systematically planning pain management before, during, and after surgery using medications and various techniques.
How pain management techniques benefit patients
Pain management techniques involve multidisciplinary care from spinal surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nursing teams to ensure patients recover without pain from surgery. Details include:
- Choosing Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery with small incisions, causing less tissue damage and blood loss, resulting in less pain and faster recovery
- For necessary large open surgeries, preparation starts before surgery and continues through post-operative planning to reduce pain using various medications and pain relief techniques such as:
- Medications acting on the nervous system to reduce pain sensation
- Medications targeting nerves responsible for pain sensation
- Back blocks to reduce pain from large surgical wounds, with continuous planning post-surgery to manage peak pain periods
- Patient-controlled analgesia devices for post-operative pain relief, allowing patients to self-administer pain medication under physician-set limits
Systematic, personalized care with a fully equipped team
Our multidisciplinary team is ready to care for patients throughout the entire process, including education about the disease, guidance on appropriate lifestyle behaviors, nutrition advice, exercise, physical therapy, correct medication use, pre- and post-operative preparation, and self-care at home. Throughout treatment, nursing staff and Nurse Case Managers provide close, personalized care, acting as consultants and coordinators with relevant departments, advising on patient rights and treatment costs. Our multidisciplinary team is committed to providing the best care for every patient at all times.
