Back Pain Treatment in New York
Our New York back pain specialists cover everything from a nagging ache to a spine injury as one team: neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons on the same case, so your diagnosis reflects the whole picture.
What is back pain, and when is it a spine injury ?
Back pain is a symptom, not a diagnosis. The ache you feel at one level of the spine can come from a disc, a joint, a nerve, or an old injury, and after trauma, the source is often not where it hurts.
Whether the trouble sits in your lower back, your neck, or the middle of your spine, most people simply call it a bad back. An accurate diagnosis of the level and the cause is what makes back pain treatment work, even after an injury.
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Specific Back Pain Conditions We Treat
Below are the conditions our back doctors treat. Some open a detailed page of their own; the rest are covered on this page.
Back pain & spine injury symptoms
The same injury can announce itself in very different ways. You might notice one of these, or several at once.
Persistent ache and stiffness
Deep aching or morning stiffness along the spine that lingers for weeks, often worse after long periods of sitting or standing.
Sharp pain after an injury
A sudden, sharp pain after lifting, twisting, or a fall, sometimes with muscle spasms that lock the back at one level.
Pain that travels
Pain, tingling, or burning that radiates from the back into the buttock or leg, following the path of a nerve.
Numbness or weakness
Numbness, tingling, or weakness in the arms or legs deserves prompt evaluation, especially after an injury to the spine.
What causes back pain ?
Back pain usually has more than one cause, especially after an injury. We look at the whole picture, not just the most obvious finding on a scan, so your treatment targets the actual problem.
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Injury and trauma
A fall, a lifting strain, a sports impact, or a car accident, sometimes with damage that only shows itself weeks later.
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Age-related wear
Discs thin and dry and joints roughen, so the spine handles load and injury less easily than it once did.
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Nerve involvement
A herniated disc, a bone spur, or a narrowed canal presses on a nerve, so pain, numbness, or weakness travels along it, often felt well beyond the back.
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Instability and slippage
A vertebra that moves more than it should, often after a fracture or strain, overworks everything holding it in place.
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Persistent pain after surgery
Pain that returns or lingers after a previous operation deserves a dedicated revision review, not a repeat of the same answer.
How is back pain diagnosed?
A focused exam
We listen to your story first, then test strength, reflexes, and movement to separate muscle, joint, and nerve pain.
Imaging, read with you
We order an MRI or CT only when the exam calls for it. Bring any scans you have; we would rather walk you through them than repeat them.
Two specialties, one case
A neurosurgeon and an orthopedic spine surgeon review your case together, so nothing is forced into one specialty's lens.
A diagnosis you understand
You leave with a specific diagnosis and a personalized plan explained in plain language, from focused evaluation to minimally invasive surgery.
Back pain treatment, from conservative care to surgery
Most back pain settles without surgery. When an operation is genuinely the right answer, we choose the least invasive one that safely does the job.
Conservative care first
Where almost every plan begins
- Guided physical therapy and activity changes matched to what is actually driving your pain.
- Medication to settle inflammation and quiet nerve-related pain.
- Image-guided injections and nerve blocks when symptoms will not ease on their own.
- Regular re-checks, so your plan changes the moment it stops working.
Surgery, when it is needed
Minimally invasive whenever the case allows
- Microdiscectomy and decompression to take pressure off a compressed nerve.
- Motion-preserving options that fix the problem while keeping your spine's natural movement.
- Fusion, to stabilize a fracture or genuine instability.
- Revision surgery for pain that has come back, or never left, after an earlier operation.
When it cannot wait: after a significant injury, new weakness or numbness in the arms or legs, trouble walking, loss of bowel or bladder control, or severe pain that will not ease can signal serious nerve or spinal cord injury. If this is happening, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department now.
Doctors who treat back pain & spine injury in New York
Our back specialist doctors are neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons with academic-level training who review your case together for patients across the New York metro area.
Marc Dyrszka, MD
Yigal Samocha, MD
Joshua Adjei, MD
Simon Morr, MD
Debra Petrucci, MD
Jay Reidler, MD
John A. Grant, MD
John F. Morrison, MD
Murat Cosar, MD
M. Mehdi Kazmi, MD
Nicholas Post, MD
