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American Spine

a multidisciplinary pain and spine practice
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At American Spine, our multi-specialty team of doctors treat each patients individual needs. Using the latest techniques and state of the art equipment to diagnose pain, our practitioners determine a plan to meet the each patient’s unique needs. We have assemble the best multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals who can best help our patient’s with compassion. This approach allows our pain management physicians a full spectrum of treatment options that are truly the least invasive. 

 

State of the Art treatments for herniated discs, spinal stenosis, pinched nerves and arthritis of the spine. It is well known that traditionally, neck and back surgery does not have the best outcomes and often results in complications including chronic back pain while requiring lengthy recovery periods. At American Spine, this not the case for our patients. Our state of the art procedures are truly “minimally or least invasive” and require no hospital stay or long recuperation time.

Over the past decade, our team of fellowship trained physicians has successfully treated tens of thousands of people who suffered from conditions such as pinched nerves and pain from herniated discs or torn discs, spinal stenosis, and arthritis of the spine. We not only use the latest techniques and instruments our physicians have been teaching their techniques to doctors from around the world for many years. Our experienced doctors, technicians, and nurses allows patients to come to our state-of-the-art surgical facilities, undergo their procedure, and return home to their normal lifestyle – all in a short period of time.

 

Our endoscopic specialists perform a variety of minimally invasive outpatient procedures to treat a number of degenerative spine conditions, including herniated or degenerative disc, spinal stenosis, and a number of other potentially debilitating conditions of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. Whether you're suffering from severe pain, numbness, muscle weakness, tingling, or any of the symptoms typically associated with these conditions, our outpatient procedures can help you. Our goal is for you to rediscover your life without neck and back pain.

While we are known as a leading center of excellence for minimally invasive spine surgery, we spend significant amount of resources to provide conservative treatments to our patients. Our goal is to use the “least” invasive approach weather that is physical therapy and exercise to nerve blocks to get you back to enjoying your life. So if you've spent weeks, months or years trying various surgical or nonsurgical treatments, such as physical therapy, pain medication, hot/cold therapy, massage, chiropractics, or others, yet have failed to find relief, you should consider seeing one of our specialists. We would like to educate you about our endoscopic procedures that are minimally invasive alternatives to traditional open neck or back surgery.

December 16, 2012

American Spine Receives Award from Frederick Board of County Commissioners
Congratulations to American Spine owners Dr. Malik and Dr. Sherlekar for an award by both the city and county of Frederick, MD this Monday.

December 16, 2012

FUNGAL MENINGITIS OUTBREAK
Fungal meningitis occurs when the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord are infected with a fungus. Fungal meningitis is rare and usually caused by the spread of a fungus through blood to the spinal cord.

December 16, 2012

‘Top Doctor’ by US News and World Report Awards American Spine Neurosurgeon Dr. Winters
Dr. Winters’ medical degree and neurosurgical residency were completed at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has a special interest in minimally invasive spine surgery and the latest spinal surgery techniques.