Painful spine, hip, and knee conditions can drastically affect how you move, and can make it difficult or impossible to do the things you need to do every day. At Mount Sinai Doctors-1441 South Avenue, Multispecialty on Staten Island, we offer comprehensive orthopedic care for conditions related to your spine, hips, and knees, and the latest treatments that repair damage, restore mobility, and improve your quality of life. 

Spine Care

Our spine specialist has extensive experience treating a wide variety of conditions affecting your lower back (lumbar spine), chest area (thoracic spine), and neck (cervical spine). Often, we can treat your spine condition without surgery. Our spine expert treats adults and adolescents.

If surgery is the best way to help you, we offer minimally invasive techniques, and most patients can go home the same day. We also regularly perform complex reconstructions to treat severe spinal deformities and scoliosis.

Conditions We Treat

Our goal is to get you back to your day-to-day life. Conditions we treat include:

• Compression fractures
• Herniated discs
• Myelitis and myelopathy
• Osteoarthritis
• Sciatica
• Scoliosis
• Spinal stenosis
• Spinal tumors
• Spondylolisthesis
• Traumatic injuries and fractures

Non-Surgical Treatment Options

Whenever possible, we try to avoid surgery. We use a variety of approaches:

• Oral medications: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and other pain-relieving drugs can lessen inflammation and pain.
• Rehabilitation: Guided-exercise programs can strengthen the muscles around the spine and improve your posture and muscle imbalances. We can teach you how to lift properly, to avoid future injury.
• Education: Learning more about your condition and what you can expect can improve your results. We can help you adapt your daily life to stop any further damage and improve your quality of life. We can teach you relaxation exercises, which may reduce tension in your back and spine.

Surgical Treatment Options

Sometimes surgery is the best way to repair a spine condition and relieve pain. If this is the case, we use minimally invasive and robotic-assisted techniques whenever possible. These techniques cause less tissue damage and reduce postoperative pain and recovery time. We have expertise in the following procedures:

• Discectomy: This is one of the most common spine surgeries. We remove part of a herniated disc, which relieves the pressure on your spinal nerves.
• Laminectomy: By removing the bony “roof” over your spinal nerves (called the lamina), we can decrease your pain.
• Scoliosis correction: We can straighten a curving spine using several types of surgery.
• Cervical disc replacement: We remove a worn or deteriorated spinal disc and replace it with an artificial disc to help with pain and restore normal motion.
• Spinal fusion: This approach involves fusing two or more spinal vertebrae. We often use a bone graft to help with spine instability caused by infection, arthritis, tumors, trauma, or scoliosis.

Hip and Knee Replacement

Hip and knee replacement surgeries are common approaches to helping with joint damage due to arthritis, trauma, autoimmune (rheumatoid) conditions, or congenital abnormalities. Joint replacement is usually recommended when less invasive therapies have failed to reduce pain and your mobility has been compromised. Our hip and knee replacement specialists on Staten Island have extensive experience with routine and complex conditions, and we also offer special expertise in hip or knee replacement due to a cancerous (oncologic) condition.

Treatments We Offer

We use the most advanced implants and techniques for hip and knee replacement. The procedures involve removing the diseased or injured joint surface and replacing it with an implant that restores a smooth motion between the bones in the joint. This artificial joint, also called a prosthesis, is usually made of metal and plastic or ceramic. We use different techniques, depending on your individual situation. Some of these approaches are:

• Anterior approach for hip replacement: This method has minimal effect on the muscles that support the hip joint. Advantages include a shorter hospital stay and faster recovery time.
• Unicondylar knee replacement: With this approach, we only remove and replace the damaged part of the knee joint.
• Mako robotic surgical assist technology: This 3D imaging technique helps us place your hip or knee implant with the highest level of accuracy.