Services and Treatments

SERVICES

Conditions we evaluate, diagnose and treat

The field of neurological surgery encompasses conditions affecting the spine, back, neck, arms and legs, and nervous system.

The Chicago Back Institute specializes in diagnosing and treating patients with a variety of conditions and symptoms, including those listed below:

• Arteriovenous malformation of the spinal cord 
• Back pain 
• Brown-Sequard syndrome  
• Bulging disk  
• Carpal tunnel syndrome 
• Cauda equina syndrome  
• Cervical spinal stenosis  
• Disk disease  
• Diskitis  
• Disk space infection 
• Degenerative disease of the spine 
• Degenerative disk disease 
• Herniated disk (cervical, thoracic, lumbar)  
• Low back pain 
• Lumbar instability  
• Lumbar spinal stenosis  
• Lumbar spondylosis  
• Mid back pain  
• Myelopathy  
• Neck pain 
• Neurogenic claudication 
• Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL)  
• Pseudoclaudication  
• Radiculopathy (cervical, thoracic, lumbar) 
• Sciatica  
• Scoliosis 
• Spinal cord tumors (cervical, thoracic, lumbar) 
• Spinal instability 
• Spondylolisthesis 
• Spondylotic myelopathy 
• Spondylolysis (Pars defect) 
• Stenosis 
• Synovial cyst  
• Syringomyelia  
• Tarlov cyst

This list of terms and definitions is in place to help educate you about the different conditions you may face, so you can better understand how the Chicago Back Institute can treat you.

If you experience any of these conditions or symptoms, please contact our licensed professionals for a diagnostic evaluation and the most effective treatments tailored to you.

At the Chicago Back Institute we not only treat back pain, but human beings.

TREATMENTS

The Chicago Back Institute is committed to using the most advanced technology available for treatments including alternative therapies, minimally invasive spine surgery, endoscopic spine surgery and fusion surgery.

Our neurological surgeons also specialize in motion-preservation technologies including total disk replacement and posterior stabilization, major spinal reconstruction and cancer surgery with reconstruction.