UCI Health offers comprehensive spine care for you in Orange County and beyond. Comprehensive care at UCI Health means a multidisciplinary team working closely together to give you seamless, world-class treatment from physical therapy to medical management and surgery. Our fellowship-trained team of spine surgeons will discuss all of the treatment options and work with you to decide on the right approach to improve your quality of life.
We diagnose and treat all conditions affecting the spine, including:
- Adult and pediatric deformities
- Back pain
- Herniated discs
- Scoliosis
- Spinal stenosis
- Spinal tumors
- Sciatica
- Arthritis
- Degenerative disc disease
- Neck pain
- Spinal cord injury
- Spine trauma
- Spondylolisthesis
Advanced treatment options that bring relief
Our fellowship-trained spine specialists partner with their patients on the best approach to relieving their spine pain. UCI Health offers the full spectrum of spine care from noninvasive treatment such as physical therapy and pain management, to minimally invasive surgical approaches such as robotic-assisted surgery and endoscopic spine surgery.
UCI Health is pleased to be one of few hospitals in the nation to offer endoscopic spine surgery, an ultra-minimally invasive approach to spine care where the tiniest of incisions is used to access the treatment area. This procedure leads to an even faster recovery and less pain when compared to other spine surgeries.
Second-opinion spine study
If you have been told you need spine surgery, it is important for you to consider getting a second opinion from an experienced surgeon before selecting your treatment.
The spine experts at UCI Health Comprehensive Spine Center offer a research study that evaluates the role second opinions play in your decision to have spine surgery. This study allows you to seek a second opinion for spine surgery at UCI Health, at no cost, if you meet the eligibility criteria.
Use the form below to select a second-opinion appointment with our spine specialists.
Meet our spine surgeons
Nitin N. Bhatia, MD
Hansen C. Bow, MD
Sohaib Z. Hashmi, MD
Yu-Po Lee, MD
Michael Y. Oh, MD
Don Y. Park, MD
Hao-Hua Wu, MD
Emily Mills, MD
Meet our patients
Spared from paralysis by spine surgery
Spinal cord compression is often missed in seniors. But when a previously active and healthy Janet Kunkle, 80, turned up at UCI Medical Center without feeling from the waist down, doctors considered all possible causes and treatments, including spine surgery.
Rare spine surgery restores elite athlete’s mobility
Vince Bruno faced severe restriction of his spinal cord in the neck, following a serious biking accident. Following a successful spinal laminoplasty, Bruno praises the UCI Health spine team for their skill and partnership in selecting the right treatment for him.
Freed from crippling back pain
Talia Ryan began suffering searing back pain at age 15. After being diagnosed with pars defect and spondylolisthesis and trying numerous therapies to alleviate pain, Ryan found answers at UCI Health. Subsequent bone growth and physical therapy has changed her life, enabling her to relish everyday experiences — even simply sitting at a table to eat.
Outpatient spine surgery cures runner’s pain
Heather Austin felt “electric shocks” that traveled from her hips down both legs. Over time, the pain intensified, leaving her barely able to walk. Diagnosed with spinal stenosis and spondylolisthesis, she found a cure at UCI Health through a minimally invasive surgery called biportal endoscopic spinal decompression without fusion.
