Complex Spine Care at Mayo Clinic
Choose Mayo Clinic for world class complex spine care and get the right treatment plan to address your current concerns – and preserve your spine health for the future. Our experts are skilled in advanced treatments and technologies designed to reduce hospital stays, lower complication rates, and shorten recovery times.
With Mayo Clinic, you can rest assured you are receiving the best care – and the right care – to place you on the path to recovery.
Deep experience with complex conditions.
More than 40,000 adults and children with spine disorders come to Mayo Clinic each year. We treat the most complex spine conditions, including cervical radiculopathy, cervical spondylosis, disk disease, diskitis, herniated disk, kyphosis, lumbar radiculopathy, lumbar spondylosis, myelopathies, neurogenic claudication (pseudoclaudication), sciatica, scoliosis, spinal stenosis, spine deformity spondylotic myelopathy, synovial cyst, syringomyelia, and thoracic radiculopathy.
Experts who have your best interest in mind.
Mayo Clinic experts are guided by the principle that the “needs of the patient come first.” To customize your care plan, we bring together experts across specialties including neurophysiology, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, orthopedic spine surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and sports medicine. We also can work with your local providers to plan for convenient, ongoing care.
Access to cutting-edge treatments.
We perform spinal deformity corrections, complex spinal fusions, and minimally invasive procedures and use surgery enhancing technology to allow for greater precision to allow patients to focus on recovery and return to everyday activities.
Our patients have access to treatment options such as:
- Spinal deformity corrections are performed to realign the spinal column and relieve pain and improve quality of life.
- Minimally invasive spine surgery can be used for decompression, disk replacement and spinal fusion, and minimizes damage to soft tissue around the spine and has less blood loss and pain for the patient.
- Robotic assisted spinal surgery techniques are used for spinal decompression and fusion, and patients with degenerative spine disease have shown less need for pain medicine and faster recovery times.
- Mayo Clinic routinely performs single position spinal reconstructive surgery. This cutting-edge approach typically allows for shorter operating times and hospital stays compared with conventional lumbar interbody fusion (LIF).
- Mayo Clinic is also leading new research with biological therapy for degenerative invertebral disk disease and currently offers regenerative therapy for degenerative spinal conditions including phase 2 clinical trial of biological therapy for lumbar facet arthritis.
- Development of the awake spine surgery program has led to improved patient outcome. The combination of minimally invasive approach with spinal anesthesia, or awake spine surgery, has proven to result in shorter operating time, better pain control, earlier return to activity, reduced post-operative fatigue and shorter hospital stays.
The power of advanced diagnostics.
Effective treatment starts with accurate diagnosis. At Mayo Clinic, we use advanced diagnostic tools. These include:
- Innovative radiological techniques, including advanced neuroimaging (MRI or CT myelography), electrophysiology and intraoperative monitoring.
- 3D imaging to help pinpoint a spinal disorder.
- Specialized nerve conduction and muscle tests.
- Assessment of bone health.
Nationally recognized for expertise.
Mayo Clinic in Arizona’s Neurology and Neurosurgery specialties are recognized on Newsweek’s World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2025 list.
Mayo Clinic is top ranked in more specialties than any other hospital, according to U.S. News & World Report.
While U.S. News only reports national specialty rankings and doesn't rank specialties at the regional or state level, Mayo Clinic evaluates whether a hospital outperforms others in its region or state based on national rankings.
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