Month: September 2025

I think a lot of times my patients come to me with a question in the mind, in their mind of how do they know they’re picking the right surgeon? And it’s a very fair and and reasonable thing to consider. I tell my patients, you have to be comfortable with your surgeon because a surgery is as much art as science.

You want to know that that surgeon’s gonna be there for you if there are any bumps in the road that you have to deal with at any time. So I think comfort level and trust are some of the most important things that you should look for in your relationship with a a particular surgeon.

When it comes to stem cells as a general rule, there’s simply not good evidence that it does anything for anybody. So if patients really want it done, I will offer that to them. But typically, I think there are other minimally invasive treatment options that have been time tested that are much more effective, that should be tried first.

Stem cell therapy kind of peaked in popularity five to 10 years ago when, before we could really see outcomes and results. It’s very rare for me to do a stem cell injection at at this time, as frankly, there’s just not good evidence to support that. It’s really helped that many people, so it’s a very expensive procedure.

It has limited risks, but if it’s not gonna work, and I tell my patients, we don’t know if it’s gonna work or think it’s gonna work, then the question is, well, why do it?

Stem cell therapy kind of peaked in popularity five to 10 years ago, when before we could really see outcomes and results. It’s very rare for me to do a stem cell injection at this time, as frankly, there’s just not good evidence to support that it’s really helped that many people. So it’s a very expensive procedure.

It has limited risks, but if it’s not gonna work, and I tell my patients we don’t know if it’s gonna work or think it’s gonna work, then the question is, well, why do it?

For the future of spinal surgery as we progress, I think the current trends will continue in that more and more spine surgery will be routinely done at an outpatient surgery center. That trend has been very strong the last several years, and I think it’ll continue indefinitely. As we found that a lot of these procedures that we thought had to be done in a hospital, really the patients do just as well, or even better if it’s done in a surgery center.