Spine Center
The Penn State Health Spine Center provides treatment for all your back and neck pain needs — from simple to complex.
If daily activities have become more difficult or you’re living with pain, our patient care team will work with you to determine the best course of treatment. And you’ll have access to the expertise you need — whether board-certified physicians from neurosurgery, orthopaedics and rehabilitation, physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain management or radiology.
For patients who need surgery, our nationally recognized neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons will work with you and your family to make sure you receive the individualized care you need. Our leading-edge devices enable minimally invasive surgeries for faster recovery times and shorter hospital stays.
Comprehensive spine care
The spine is a complex structure, and its function can be impacted in many ways. Here are some of the common conditions we treat:
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Arachnoiditis
- Back pain
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Cervical disk herniation
- Cervical facet disease
- Cervical spondylosis
- Coccydynia (tailbone trauma)
- Compression fracture
- Cerebrospinal fluid leak
- Diskitis
- Epidural abscess
- Failed back surgery syndrome
- Herniated disk
- Kyphosis
- Low back pain
- Lumbar disk herniation
- Lumbar facet disease
- Lumbar spondylosis
- Myelopathy
- Neck pain
- Occipital neuralgia
- Postlaminectomy syndrome
- Sacral (insufficiency) fracture
- Sciatica
- Scoliosis
- Spina bifida
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal fracture
- Spinal osteomyelitis
- Spinal stenosis
- Spinal tumor
- Spondylolisthesis
- Spondylolysis
- Syringomyelia
