Not everyone with serious back and neck pain needs surgery. A range of nonsurgical care is available for disorders and conditions affecting your spine and neurological system.
Find Relief from Back Pain
When back pain interrupts your life, the Avera Spine Center team is here to help you find relief. We work with you, loved ones and all members of your care team to determine the best steps ahead until you feel better.
Specialist Appointment
At your appointment, a specialist will review your back and neck symptoms and your health history with you to determine the best treatment. Nonsurgical methods, such as physical therapy, medications and injections, are possible options considered before surgery.
Treatments & Follow-Up
Follow-up appointments will help to determine if any of these current methods are helping you. We do our best to provide treatment options that don’t involve surgery. In some cases, though, your provider may schedule an evaluation with a surgeon.
Surgical Evaluation
If surgery is determined to be necessary, your care team will talk to you about what happens before, during and after the operation.
Cutting-Edge Technology
Experienced spinal surgeons provide innovative treatments and minimally invasive options including robotic-assisted surgeries. Navigational robotics offer surgeons a better view to perform surgery with increased accuracy and precision. Some of this technology includes:
- Gamma Knife®, a large device that looks like a CT or MRI machine, is used on small, targeted areas of the spine (or brain).
- O-arm™ Surgical Imaging System provides 2D and 3D imaging to guide surgery.
- The ProAxis® Spinal Surgery Table is an advanced operating table designed for the unique needs of spine surgery. MOVETHIS
Expert Spine Care Services & Treatments
Patients with back and neck pain or needing spine surgery can count on our spine specialists and neurosurgeons at the Avera Brain & Spine Institute. Our care teams are equipped with the latest spinal treatment technology, offering minimally invasive procedures to support a faster recovery and a higher-quality outcome.
Conditions We Treat
- Arthritic back pain
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Chronic pain along the back and neck
- Cranial and spinal nerve disorders
- Degenerative spinal disease
- Nerve injuries and pain including sciatica
- Pituitary tumors and disorders
- Ruptured and degenerative discs
- Scoliosis
- Spinal cord, meninges and vertebral column disorders
- Spinal fractures and injuries
- Spinal stenosis
- Spinal tumors
- Thoracic pain in or on the spine
- Weakness and instability of the spine
Diagnostic, Imaging & Nonsurgical Options
As part of your care plan, you'll get expert spinal care for relief from back and neck pain with nonsurgical options:
- Consultations with experts
- Imaging for accurate diagnosis
- Interventional spinal injections
- Nerve and muscular testing
- Medications
- Physical therapy
Spine Surgery & Recovery
Our services include diagnosis and medical or surgical treatments and recovery methods involving the following:
- Complex spine surgery
- Degenerative spine problems
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Speech, occupational, physical and/or vision therapy
- Spinal fusion and instrumentation
For patients needing surgery, you will receive a presurgery consultation and follow-up care to help you with recovery. Depending on the scope of your treatment, you might be hospitalized for close observation in the first steps of recovery.
