Dr. Jeffrey Michael Spivak MD
Orthopedist | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
301 E 17th St New York NY, 10003About
Jeffrey Spivak, MD, MS, is the Director of the Hospital for Joint Diseases Spine Center. He is a board certified Orthopaedic Surgeon whose practice is limited to spinal surgery in the adolescent and adult. ...
Education and Training
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medicine Research, Pondicherry University 1986
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The effect of locking fixation screws on the stability of anterior cervical plating.
- The use of an injectable, biodegradable calcium phosphate bone substitute for the prophylactic augmentation of osteoporotic vertebrae and the management of vertebral compression fractures.
- Use of the anterior interbody fresh-frozen femoral head allograft in circumferential lumbar fusions.
- Internal fixation of cervical trauma following corpectomy and reconstruction. The effects of posterior element injury.
- Use of hydroxyapatite in spine surgery.
- Vertebroplasty: weighing the benefits and the risks.
- Evaluation of a low-temperature calcium phosphate particulate implant material: physical-chemical properties and in vivo bone response.
- Percutaneous treatment of vertebral body pathology.
- Laminoplasty: a review of its role in compressive cervical myelopathy.
- The lumbar spine and low back pain in golf: a literature review of swing biomechanics and injury prevention.
- A comparison of two retroperitoneal surgical approaches for total disc arthroplasty of the lumbar spine.
- Vertebral artery injury in cervical spine surgery: anatomical considerations, management, and preventive measures.
- Lower limb-length discrepancy. An epidemiologic study.
- Effect of intervertebral disc height on postoperative motion and clinical outcomes after Prodisc-C cervical disc replacement.
- Revision of a lumbar disc arthroplasty following late infection.
Treatments
- Spondylolisthesis
- Back Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Pain
- Spinal Stenosis
- Abnormal Gait
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