Spine Center | UC Davis Health

Team-Based Treatment Provides Comprehensive Care

The UC Davis Spine Center offers integrated, multidisciplinary spine care provided by nationally recognized physicians. We combine a specialized team with state-of-the-art technology to deliver world-class care close to home. All Spine Center patients have full access to convenient in-house support services, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, lab services, orthotics, and alternative and complementary therapies. Receive premier care provided by specialists from departments including: 

Unique Advantages of the UC Davis Spine Center

As part of the region’s only academic medical center, the Spine Center provides patients of all ages access to leading-edge research, clinical trials, and advanced diagnostics and treatments. In partnership with inland Northern California’s only level I trauma center, it is uniquely equipped to treat a wide range of spinal conditions.

Surgical Treatments We Offer Include:

• Same day surgery and outpatient surgery
• Minimally invasive surgeries, including:
  • Endoscopic surgery, including cervical and lumbar endoscopy
  • Minimally invasive lumbar fusion, including TLIF, ALIF, XLIF
  • Microdiscectomy (microdiskectomy), also called microdecompression, for lumbar spine
  • Tubular decompression for lumbar and cervical spine
• Spine surgeries, including:
  • Anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF)
  • Cervical laminoplasty
  • Cervical (neck) surgery
  • Cervical total disc replacement (cTDR)
  • Deformity corrections
  • Lumbar total disc replacement
  • Microsurgery
  • Motion sparing surgery
  • Non-fusion surgery
  • Sacro-iliiac (SI) joint fusion
  • Spine or spinal cord tumor resection

Spine Conditions We Treat Include:

• Adolescent spinal disorders (scoliosis, kyphosis)
• Adult scoliosis and kyphosis
• Back sprains and strains
• Bone spurs in neck or low back
• Cervical myeloradiculopathy
• Cervical spinal stenosis
• Chronic low back pain, which may include leg pain
• Chronic neck pain, which may include arm pain
• Compressed (pinched) nerves / chronic nerve pain
• Degenerative disc disease
• Facet Joint Syndromes
• Failed Back Syndrome/revision spine surgery
• Herniated discs (cervical, lumbar and thoracic)
• Osteomyelitis/Discitis
• Sacro-iliiac (SI) joint pain, which may include hip pain
• Spinal Cord Compression/Myelopathy
• Spinal stenosis
• Spinal tumors
• Spondylolisthesis
• Thoracic disc disease