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The Yale Spine Center at Bridgeport Hospital specializes in personalized care aimed at improving a patient’s condition and quality of life with the most advanced and least invasive treatment.
Our dedicated multidisciplinary team delivers exceptional clinical care in a compassionate and supportive environment. This team includes specially trained neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, physiatrists, nurses, pain specialists, physical therapists, physician assistants, nursing assistants, rehabilitation specialists, case managers and nurse coordinators.
With an emphasis on patient-centered care, each Yale Spine Center patient is carefully evaluated to determine optimal treatment which may include, when necessary, surgical intervention. Toward achieving best patient outcomes for patients who will be having surgery we provide a preoperative patient education program and coordinate discharge arrangements, home care and rehabilitation services.
Conditions treated by the Yale Spine Center team include:
The Yale Spine Center at Bridgeport Hospital offers comprehensive surgical treatment options including:
Spinal fusion surgery is an option for patients who no longer get relief from other treatments, and are experiencing chronic pain or impairment due to spinal instability, unstable fractures, and deformities of the spine or spondylolisthesis.
Spine surgeons at Bridgeport Hospital are specialists at performing minimally invasive spinal fusion through smaller incisions using advanced imaging guidance. This minimally invasive approach offers significant advantages to patients -- minimal blood loss, less pain and a faster return to normal activity.
The right diagnosis is crucial to determining an optimal treatment plan, and every patient is carefully evaluated. Depending on a patient’s spine condition, symptoms such as pain, weakness, and numbness may be successfully alleviated with nonsurgical treatments, such as rest, activity modifications, anti-inflammatory medications, physical therapy and home-based exercise.
Nonsurgical therapeutic injections offered by our interventional physiatrists and pain specialists to treat inflammatory conditions in the spine include:
Advanced imaging technology incorporated within our spine services includes:
The opioid crisis has pushed the field of medicine to reduce the use of the powerful painkillers leaving many patients and physicians searching for alternative ways to address pain.
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