UT Medicine Spine and Nerve Center
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Health Transformation Building
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512-495-5414
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512-495-5680
- About
- Treatment approach
- Care team
- Conditions
- Procedures
Comprehensive spine and nerve care
At the Spine and Nerve Center, our specialists diagnose, treat and manage conditions affecting the spine, spinal cord and nerves in adult patients (18 years and older), including herniated discs, spinal stenosis, radiculopathy, low back pain, sciatica and spinal fractures.
Our team provides comprehensive care using evidence-based approaches, including non-surgical therapies, minimally invasive procedures, spinal decompression, laminectomy, microdiscectomy, artificial disc replacement, spinal fusion, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty. We also provide multidisciplinary care for neuromuscular disorders within the Neuromuscular Disorders Clinic.
As part of the Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences, the Spine and Nerve Center is dedicated to helping you reduce pain, restore function and maintain mobility and independence.
Our treatment approach
At UT Medicine, we take an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to your care. This means you will benefit from the expertise of multiple specialists across a variety of disciplines caring for you in one place — avoiding the need to schedule multiple appointments with providers at locations all over the city.
UT Medicine is anchored by Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, where we collaborate with colleagues to apply leading-edge research, diagnostic and treatment techniques to the diagnosis and treatment of your condition. Advanced imaging and lab testing are also available on-site if needed.
Meet your care team
Joaquin Q. Camara, M.D.
Physician
UT Medicine Spine and Nerve Center
Jared Fridley, M.D.
Physician
UT Medicine Spine and Nerve Center
David Henderson, PT
Nurse Practitioner
UT Medicine Spine and Nerve Center
Alexis Lizarraga, M.D.
UT Medicine Neuromuscular Disorders Clinic, UT Medicine Spine and Nerve Center
Conditions we treat
Degenerative conditions:
- Cervical disc herniation
- Lumbar disc herniation
- Cervical spondylosis / degenerative disc disease
- Lumbar spondylosis / degenerative disc disease
- Cervical stenosis
- Lumbar stenosis
- Foraminal stenosis
- Facet joint arthropathy
- Spondylolisthesis (degenerative)
- Adjacent segment disease
Deformity:
- Adult degenerative scoliosis
- Kyphosis / flatback deformity
- Sagittal imbalance / spinal malalignment
- Post-surgical deformity
Trauma:
- Cervical fractures
- Thoracic and lumbar fractures
- Vertebral compression fractures
- Traumatic spinal cord injury
- Spinal instability
Tumors:
- Intradural spinal tumors
- Intramedullary spinal cord tumors
- Spinal meningiomas
- Spinal nerve sheath tumors (schwannomas, neurofibromas)
- Spinal metastases Primary vertebral tumors
Vascular:
- Spinal arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
- Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas (dAVFs)
- Cavernous malformations of the spinal cord
Infections and inflammatory:
- Spinal epidural abscess
- Vertebral osteomyelitis / discitis
- Rheumatoid arthritis of the spine
- Ankylosing spondylitis
Functional and neuromodulation:
- Chronic spine-related pain
- Failed back surgery syndrome
- Spinal cord injury rehabilitation (including neuromodulation)
Myelopathy and radiculopathy:
- Cervical myelopathy
- Thoracic myelopathy
- Lumbar radiculopathy/sciatica
- Cervical radiculopathy
Procedures we perform
- Artificial disc replacement
- Foraminotomy
- Laminectomy
- Microdiscectomy
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Spinal decompression
- Spinal fusion
- Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty