Featured Procedures
How to Treat Back Pain and Neck Pain without Major Open Back or Neck Surgery
Welcome to our Featured Procedures page.
This page focuses on our minimally invasive procedures that can treat back pain and neck pain without major open surgery. We hope you will find this information useful.
Two of the most common questions asked are:
- How can I treat neck pain or back pain without surgery?
- How can I obtain relief of back pain or neck pain after physical therapy or pain injections?
At Celling Treatment Centers, we treat people the way we would approach our own back pain and neck pain. And, without exception, we would all try to rid ourselves of back pain and neck pain without surgery. We would begin with physical therapy and progress to pain injections such as epidurals if we were not seeing improvement.
Unfortunately, physical therapy and pain injections do not always provide lasting relief. This leaves people contemplating other treatment options such as surgery. However, the decision to have surgery is difficult to make when it comes to back pain or neck pain. Treatment decisions are often delayed and the cause of the pain may progress.
Even contemplating spinal surgery raises more questions than answers:
What is the actual problem? Is it the disc? Is it something else?
Do I need a fusion? Will it help? How painful is it to get over? What can go wrong?
What are other options? What is minimally invasive spine surgery?
Accurate answers to these questions depend on the cause of the pain. Fortunately, with simple x-rays and an MRI scan these questions can be easily answered by correlating the findings on these imaging studies with the symptoms with the majority of people suffering from either a painful disc, spinal stenosis or a herniated disc with or without sciatica.
At Celling Treatment Centers, we specialize in minimally invasive out-patient surgery and procedures. People come to us because our procedures can provide fast relief and have only minimal down time. This means that most people only miss a few days of work and quickly return to their normal routine.
Today, back and neck fusions are rarely necessary to treat chronic back pain and neck pain due to the advances in minimally invasive laser spine surgery and stem cell therapy.
Our RegenaDISC procedure combines the quick relief obtained with laser spine surgery with the regenerative capacity of our own natural stem cells. This procedure can be used to treat painful discs and herniated discs. RegenaDISC is a proprietary stem cell transplantation procedure pioneered at Celling Treatment Centers and is only available in Austin, Texas. It uses the patient’s own stem cells and can treat painful disc problems in any area of the spine.
Laser Disc Repair is for treatment of herniated discs. Most people who have a herniated disc get better without any surgery. For those who do not improve, removal of the herniated disc fragment is performed but leaves behind a hole in the disc which affects its function and increases the risk that the disc may herniate again – ouch!
Laser Disc Repair not only removes the herniated disc fragment using minimally invasive methods but also repairs the disc and then treats the disc with your own stem cells to facilitate healing and regeneration.
Stem Cell Therapy is the next evolution in the treatment of painful conditions of the disc. It is a biologic approach instead of an implanted device approach such as a spinal fusion. Stem cells wo
rk by down-regulating inflammation to relieve pain and differentiating into disc-type cells for regeneration of the disc.
Stem cell therapy does not require open back surgery and is an alternative to a spinal fusion for people who have failed to respond to physical therapy and pain injections but do not want a spinal fusion or other mechanical device implanted into their back or neck.
Spinal Stenosis Treatment can now be performed using minimally invasive procedures that provide effective decompression of the compressed nerves. Spinal stenosis is typically treated with a large open back surgery and a laminectomy which requires a very painful period recovery. Open back surgery can result in so much scar tissue that it causes more back pain and unsatisfactory long-term relief.
Celling Treatment Centers spewcialize in minimally invasive surgery for spinal stenosis. No hospitalization is required and we combine the minimally invasive decompression of the nerves with laser spine surgery so that any additional sources of pain can also be treated in this single out-patient procedure. Most people notice quick relief of symptoms.
We hope you found this information useful. Please look around our site and Contact us if you would like us to review your imaging studies with you. We do not charge for this service and you may find that treating your pain will not be as difficult as you imagined.
