The Synergy Difference:

The Gold Standard: Proven Effective in Randomized, Controlled, Clinical Trials for Treatment of Spinal Stenosis and Herniated Disk.

Make the RIGHT choice. Go with the leader.

We are committed to the perfection of advanced spinal medicine and Endoscopic Spinal Stenosis Surgery. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you recover from spinal pain and disability.

Workers compensation

Back to work from injury; in 8-12 weeks or less.

Because we feature proven, long term, cost effective therapies based primarily on randomized controlled trials, industrial clients and injured workers can have confidence that correctable conditions can be identified and treated within 8-12 weeks or less, even if surgery is required.  The value of this approach is less disability, less lost productivity, and greater savings for industrial payors.

Correctable Spinal Problems Producing Pain and Occupational Disability

Herniated discs (ruptured or contained) with sciatica leg pain symptoms and functional disability

Painful degenerative disc disease proven by pressure controlled discography

Spinal facet injury due to occupational trauma or arthritis worsened by the occupational environment

Lumbar scoliosis (Cobb angle less than 30 degrees) with axial low back pain susceptible to work related injury

With the Synergy plan, there is no hospitalization or anesthesia cost, extensive recovery period, or palliative treatments leading to uncompensated legal expense or open spinal surgery.

With our treatment programs your employee is back to work quickly before secondary influences become part of the equation. Since mobility and activity are beneficial to healing, rapid return to work and daily activities allows for the best possible outcomes for reversible spinal conditions.

Synergy Stats

• Evidence-based spinal interventions proven in randomized, controlled clinical trials
• No potent narcotics in the industrial environment
• Spinal injections only for self-limited conditions or for diagnostic use
• Cost comparison between endoscopic and open spinal surgical procedures:
  • Outpatient endoscopic and/or laser spinal surgery:
    $2-12,000                1-3 week recovery
  • Inpatient open spinal surgery:
    $20-80,000             8-24 week recovery
  • Few patients ever return to work after spinal fusion operations.  Nearly all patients return to work after outpatient endoscopic spinal procedures
• The only provider of outpatient full-endoscopic spinal surgery in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic region.  Over 1000 cases performed since 2004.

In the “traditional” treatment model for patients with neck or back pain it is important to realize that the money is spent not only on costs and lost productivity from open surgery, but also on boutique prescription drugs (especially proprietary narcotics), poorly documented, unproven outpatient treatments in so-called “pain clinics”, ongoing physical therapy, MRI, and CT scans.  Effective outpatient full-endoscopic spinal surgery when appropriate is the quickest, safest, most cost effective treatment option available.  It avoids long suffering for the injured worker, and saves valuable time and resources for the industrial client.

The paper by Martin B. I. et.al.  “Expenditures and health status among adults with back and neck problems”  Journal of the American Medical Association 299:656-664, 2008 is instructive and should be required reading for industrial health care professionals.

Our guarantee – “The smallest incision, the lowest cost, the best results – Synergy Spine Center”