ADR Spine Welcomes Elite Physicians to Top Doctors in Arthroplasty Program

Get to know Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Jason M. Cuéllar, who serves patients in Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens, and Miami, Florida.

Dr. Todd H. Lanman is pleased to announce the official launch of the ADR Spine Top Doctors in Arthroplasty Program, a groundbreaking initiative designed to connect patients with the most skilled and experienced artificial disc replacement surgeons in their area.

Jason Cuellar, MD, PhD, is a spine surgeon practicing in Beverly Hills, Calif., and Los Angeles.

Leading the field of artificial disc replacement surgery — a world expert in the treatment of neck and back pain without fusion. A spine in motion should stay in motion!

Dr. Jason M. Cuéllar, a Board Certified and Fellowship Trained Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, and one of the nation’s leaders in Motion Preservation and Minimally Invasive spine surgery, is now performing Lumbar Total Disc Replacement (TDR) procedures in the South Florida region.

Dr. Cuellar's practice includes artificial disc replacement, regenerative medicine and biologic injections. He is an artificial disc replacement patient himself and had the procedure done in 2019.

Do you have degenerative disc disease in your neck? Synergy Spine Solutions is conducting a clinical trial for people with single level cervical degenerative disc disease.

Dr. Cuellar of ADR Spine performed the first 3-level disc replacement using ProDisc Vivo.

Dr. Cuellar and colleagues have just published a research paper in the International Journal of Spine Surgery describing the technique of bone spur removal (anterior cervical foraminotomy) next to an artificial disc without removal of the implant.

Dr. Cuellar was recently featured in a New York Times article about how cell phone use can affect the neck.

A new paper published in the International Journal of Spine Surgery by Dr. Cuellar and colleagues demonstrates the safety of outpatient anterior lumbar spine surgery, such as artificial disc replacement surgery. This enables patients to go home and start their recovery the same day!

A new paper published in the International Journal of Spine Surgery by Dr. Cuellar and colleagues demonstrates lasting good outcomes in motion preservation spinal surgery when combining total disc replacement of the lumbar spine with fusion at L5-S1, aka lumbar hybrid surgery.

The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery (ISASS) has recently published their strong support for total disc replacement in the spine, citing the now strong and ever growing mass of evidence demonstrating it's superiority to fusion.

Drs. Cuellar and Lanman discuss their use and the future of robotic spine surgery.

Drs. Cuellar, Wagner and Rasouli published the first report demonstrating the safety of anterior lumbar spine surgery (for example lumbar total disc replacement) performed in outpatient surgery centers.

Drs.Cuellar and Lanman just published the first description in the medical literature describing the restoration of motion in the cervical spine (neck) by reversing a previously fused spinal segment and converting it to an artificial disc replacement.

Dr. Cuellar just published a study in the journal Spine with partner Dr Lanman and colleague Dr Rasouli, demonstrating the safety of performing cervical artificial disc replacement in outpatient surgery centers. The study found an extremely low rate of complications and post-surgical hospital admissions....

Today we have received some news we have been waiting years for - the FDA has given their approval to perform two level total disc replacement surgery in the lumbar spine using the ProDisc (Centinel Spine).

Dr. Lanman and Cuellar start enrolling patients for the FDA trial of the new ProDisc-SK and ProDisc-Vivo, 2 of the most popular artificial disc replacement implants used in Europe.

Dr Cuéllar’s partner Dr. Lanman on CBS news speaking about the recent approval of the M6 cervical artificial disc replacement.

Drs. Cuellar and Lanman perform the first M6 artificial cervical disc replacement in California and the first two-level implantation in the U.S.

Our patients are expecting to be more physically active at greater ages than in prior generations. Motion-preservation devices will allow spine surgeons to improve patients while taking into consideration the long-term health of the spine, reducing rates of future surgery caused by adjacent-segment failure.

An article published in the journal AAOS Now discusses how Cannabinoids can serve as alternatives to narcotic pain medications for fracture healing pain, neuropathic pain and chronic pain, and may benefit anxiety and other health ailments.

The M6 cervical artificial disc has just gained FDA-approval to be used in the United States! And our site (Dr. Todd Lanman and myself) has been chosen as the first site to be able to use the disc in our patients.

Dr. Zigler and colleagues published a study in the journal Spine reporting that patients have much lower rates of adjacent-segment degeneration 5 years after lumbar artificial disc replacement compared to fusion.

Dr. Cuellar and colleagues Dr. Rasouli and Delamarter published a new study reporting on the results of multi-level lumbar total disc replacement from 2 to 6 years after implantation. The study reports excellent results both clinically and radiographic range of motion maintenance.

A study published by Dr. Matthew Scott-Young and colleagues in the journal Spine this month reported great results following the lumbar “hybrid” procedure whereby the L5-S1 level is fused in combination with an artificial disc replacement at the L4-5 level. This was a large study of 617 patients with...

A prospective clinical study was published in the The Spine Journal demonstrating long-term preservation of motion after artificial disc replacement at the L5-S1 level.

A study published this month in the journal Spine confirms what we have known for quite some time now - that artificial disc replacement is effective and safe when done in the outpatient surgery center

Dr. Cuéllar and partner Dr. Lanman published an article about what they called the “text neck” epidemic as a result of modern cell phone use.

Dr. Cuéllar’s partner Dr. Lanman was the lead author on the most recent and most convincing data demonstrating that two-level artificial disc replacement is better than two-level fusion for cervical disc disease. The 7-year data of the randomized controlled trial using the Medtronic Prestige LP disc...

World Tennis Magazine article regarding back pain and spine issues in tennis players by Dr. Todd Lanman.

Dr. Cuéllar discusses cervical myelopathy caused by cervical spinal stenosis and its various treatments, including by laminoplasty, in a review article published this month.

Recent research published by Drs. Cuéllar, Montesano and Scuderi shows that injection of the super molecule A2M (APIC) may be beneficial for the treatment of back pain from lumbar disc degeneration.

Texting on mobile phones recently shown to be associated with neck and upper back pain. This well-done, 5-year cohort study performed in Sweden by Gustafsson et al demonstrates that poor posture during cell phone texting may have both short-term and long-term detrimental effects on your neck and back.

Drs. Cuéllar and Montesano published a study demonstrating multiple inflammatory cytokines present within the disc space of patients with back pain compared to normal discs.

Avoid “Text-Neck”! My partner Dr. Todd Lanman was recently featured on the news describing how the bent-forward neck position that is commonly used while texting can be dangerous to your spine.

Research published by Drs. Cuéllar et al provides strong evidence that discography may be cause more harm than good.