Page 8 - Summa Health Vitality Summer 2018

Talking Back: Cervical Spine (Neck)
Common Spinal
Conditions • Spinal stenosis
• Cervical degenerative

disc disease
• Neck sprains

and strains

Back pain, a leading cause of disability, often Thoracic Spine
results from an injury, strain or disease affecting
the muscles, ligaments, joints or discs in your (Upper Back)
spinal column. The Summa Health Orthopedic
Institute treats many common spinal conditions • Compression
through minimally invasive surgery – a procedure fractures
that typically can be performed at an outpatient
surgical center with: • Osteoporosis
• Spinal tumors
• Less anesthesia
• Faster recovery
• Less post-operative pain
• Smaller incisions and less scarring
• Less soft tissue and muscle damage
• Reduced risk of infection

Meet Our Spine Surgeons Lumbar Spine

Brad Inkrott, M.D., is a • Scoliosis
graduate of the University • Disc herniation
of Cincinnati College of • Lumbar degenerative
Medicine. A former Summa
Health resident, he completed disc disease
a surgical spine fellowship at • Low-back sprains
University Hospital through
Case Western Reserve and strains
University.
Sacrum
Ryan Godinsky, M.D., a native (Lower Back)
of Northeast Ohio, is a graduate of
the University of Toledo College • Osteoporosis
of Medicine. He completed his • Trauma
orthopedic residency at Akron General
Medical Center, and a spine fellowship Coccyx (Tailbone)
at the Spine Institute of Arizona.

If you’re experiencing back pain, get it checked out. Call 888.808.3926
for a same day/next day appointment.

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