Find your condition, then a plan.
Most of these start with conservative care, not surgery. If you're not sure which one describes you, a first visit will sort it out — most patients leave with a written plan the same day.
Seek Care Promptly
These are less common but time-sensitive — don't wait on a scheduled appointment if you have symptoms of one of these. Call us, or go to an emergency room if symptoms are severe.
Spinal Discitis & Osteomyelitis
An infection of the disc and vertebrae that needs prompt diagnosis and treatment to protect the spine and nerves.
Spinal Epidural Abscess
A pocket of infection pressing on the spinal cord — a surgical emergency that can cause permanent damage within days if missed.
Spinal Epidural Hematoma
Bleeding that compresses the spinal cord or nerves — a time-sensitive emergency requiring immediate evaluation.
Cervical Spine (Neck)
Cervical Disc Herniation
Disc material pressing on a nerve in the neck — a common cause of pain, numbness, or weakness radiating into the shoulder or arm.
Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease
Age-related wear in the neck’s discs — a normal aging process for most people, and often the starting point for other cervical conditions.
Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
Wear-and-tear narrowing that compresses the spinal cord itself in the neck — a spinal cord condition, not just a pinched nerve, usually needing surgical evaluation.
Cervical Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
One neck vertebra shifting forward or backward on the one below it from age-related change, distinct from a pars fracture.
Cervical Radiculopathy
A pinched or inflamed nerve root in the neck causing pain, numbness, or weakness radiating into the shoulder, arm, or hand.
Cervical Strain
The most common cause of neck pain — overstretched or torn muscle fibers (or ligaments, if a sprain) that usually improve on their own.
Thoracic Spine (Mid-Back)
Lumbar Spine (Low Back)
Common & Degenerative
Lumbar Disc Herniation
Disc material pressing on a nerve — the most familiar cause of radiating leg pain, and usually treated without surgery first.
Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Narrowing around the nerves that limits how far or long you can walk — common after 50, and rarely an emergency.
Lumbar Spondylosis
General wear-and-tear degeneration of the lower spine — often the starting point that leads to other conditions on this list.
Lumbar Strain
The most common cause of low back pain — a muscle or ligament injury that usually improves on its own within weeks.
Lumbar Compression Fracture
A collapsed or wedged vertebra in the low back, most often from osteoporosis — most heal with non-surgical care, but some need urgent evaluation.
Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
One vertebra slipping forward on the one below it due to wear and tear, sometimes adding instability to stenosis.
Stress Fracture-Related
Spinal Deformity
Idiopathic Scoliosis
The most common type of spinal curvature, typically appearing and progressing during growth.
Congenital Scoliosis
A spinal curve present from birth, caused by vertebrae that didn’t form normally in early development.
De Novo Degenerative Scoliosis
A new spinal curve that develops in adulthood from asymmetric wear, distinct from scoliosis carried from adolescence.
Sagittal Plane Imbalance
A front-to-back spinal misalignment that tips the trunk forward — distinct from side-to-side scoliosis, and a strong driver of pain and fatigue in adult spinal deformity.
Flatback Syndrome
Loss of the low back’s normal inward curve, pitching the body forward — historically linked to Harrington rods, today more often a prior fusion or age-related wear.
Pain Generator Conditions
SI Joint Pain
Pain from the joint connecting your spine to your pelvis — commonly mistaken for a disc or nerve problem, and confirmed with a targeted diagnostic injection.
Vertebrogenic Back Pain
Chronic low back pain coming from the vertebra itself rather than the disc, identified by a specific MRI pattern called a Modic change.
HonorHealth's broader Neuroscience service line — of which this spine team is a part — also offers cerebrovascular neurosurgery, endovascular intervention, and brain tumor care at shared campus locations. Those are handled by our HonorHealth neurosurgery colleagues rather than the Next Era spine team.
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