Spine Center at Saint Anne's Hospital

The Spine Center at Saint Anne’s Hospital provides advanced, coordinated care for conditions of the neck, back and spine. Our combined expertise in neurosurgery, physiatry (physical medicine), pain management, physical and occupational therapy, and nurse navigation ensures that patients are seen by the most appropriate specialist, right from the start. 

Diagnosis and Coordination of Care

Diagnosis and coordination of care for spine conditions can be challenging for patients and their primary care providers. At the Spine Center, we streamline this process with an experienced multidisciplinary team to diagnose spine disorders and develop individual treatment plans.

Spinal Conditions We Treat

Conditions we treat include:

• Back and neck pain
• Arthritis of the spine
• Failed back syndrome
• Neuropathy
• Nerve entrapment
• Nerve injury
• Vertebral compression fracture
• Disc herniation
• Fractured spine
• Spinal tumors
• Spinal stenosis 

A nurse navigator works with providers and patients to coordinate treatment from referral through recovery. From the first visit, we collaborate with each patient to decide on the best treatment option. Often, this is not surgery. 

Spinal Treaments

Our expert team provides the latest in non-surgical interventions. We also offer robot-assisted, minimally invasive spine surgery, including the first-in-Massachusetts ExcelsiusGPS robot-assisted navigation system for spinal surgery.

Spine treatments at the Spine Center at Saint Anne's Hospital include:

• Functional capacity evaluation
• Physical conditioning and rehabilitative programs
• Behavioral medicine components, including relaxation training, stress management and pain reduction training
• Psychological interventions for depression and anxiety and pain-coping responses
• Medication management
• Spinal injection
• Vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty
• Diagnostic discography
• Percutaneous discectomy
• Spinal cord stimulation
• Surgical decompression and discectomy
• Spinal fusion and instrumentation
• "ExcelsiusGPS" robotic navigation system for minimally invasive surgery  (read more about ExcelsiusGPS on globusmedical.com)

Awards and Recognitions

Our spinal surgery program is the first hospital in Massachusetts to earn The Joint Commission’s “Gold Seal” certification for spinal surgery. We've also earned the Blue Distinction Center for Spine Surgery designation by Blue Cross Blue Shield.