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30+ Spine Surgeons Performing Artificial Disc Replacement | 2023
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...
Dr. Cuéllar Featured in Modern Luxury
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.
Drs. Todd H. Lanman and Jason M. Cuellar Become First Surgeons in the U.S. to Perform 3-Level ADR With Prodisc® C Vivo
Dr. Cuellar of ADR Spine performed the first 3-level disc replacement using ProDisc Vivo.
Anterior Cervical Foraminotomy for Radiculopathy After Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement: Technique Description and Case Report
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)...
Text Neck, Pinkie Pain and Other Ways Phones Can Wreck Our Bodies
Dr. Cuellar was recently featured in a New York Times article about how cell phone use can affect the neck.
Outpatient Versus Inpatient Anterior Lumbar Spine Surgery:A Multisite, Comparative Analysis of Patient Safety
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...
Single and Multilevel Lumbar Total Disc Replacement Adjacent to L5-S1 ALIF (Lumbar Hybrid): 6 Years of Follow-up
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...
2021 Position Statement From the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery on Cervical and Lumbar Disc Replacement
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...
Are Robots for Spine Surgery Worth the Cost?
Drs. Cuellar and Lanman discuss their use and the future of robotic spine surgery.
Low Complication Rate of Anterior Lumbar Spine Surgery in an Ambulatory Surgery Center
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...
Cuéllar Spine Articles
Drs. Todd H. Lanman and Jason M. Cuellar Become First Surgeons in the U.S. to Perform 3-Level ADR With Prodisc® C Vivo
Dr. Cuellar of ADR Spine performed the first 3-level disc replacement using ProDisc Vivo.
Text Neck, Pinkie Pain and Other Ways Phones Can Wreck Our Bodies
Dr. Cuellar was recently featured in a New York Times article about how cell phone use can affect the neck.
Anterior Cervical Foraminotomy for Radiculopathy After Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement: Technique Description and Case Report
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)...
Outpatient Versus Inpatient Anterior Lumbar Spine Surgery:A Multisite, Comparative Analysis of Patient Safety
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...
Single and Multilevel Lumbar Total Disc Replacement Adjacent to L5-S1 ALIF (Lumbar Hybrid): 6 Years of Follow-up
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...
2021 Position Statement From the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery on Cervical and Lumbar Disc Replacement
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...
Are Robots for Spine Surgery Worth the Cost?
Drs. Cuellar and Lanman discuss their use and the future of robotic spine surgery.
Low Complication Rate of Anterior Lumbar Spine Surgery in an Ambulatory Surgery Center
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...
Restoration of Spinal Motion: Conversion of Anterior Cervical Fusion With Pseudarthrosis to Artificial Disc Replacement
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...
Centinel Spine Announces FDA Approval for Two-level prodisc® L Total Disc Replacement
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...
Lanman Spinal Neurosurgery Opens Up 2-Level prodisc®Cervical SK and Vivo Clinical Trial in Los Angeles
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.
Lanman Spinal Neurosurgery Opens Up 2-Level prodisc®Cervical SK and Vivo Clinical Trial in Los Angeles
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...
FDA Approves New Device to Help Disc Pain Sufferers
Dr Cuéllar’s partner Dr. Lanman on CBS news speaking about the recent approval of the M6 cervical artificial disc replacement.
First-ever two-level M6 procedure performed in the USA
Drs. Cuellar and Lanman perform the first M6 artificial cervical disc replacement in California and the first two-level implantation in the U.S.
Cannabinoids Can Serve as Alternatives to Narcotic Pain Medication for Fracture Healing
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...
10 Things To Know About Spinal Disc Replacement
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...
FDA approval for M6-C artificial cervical disc
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...
Progression of Adjacent-level Degeneration After Lumbar Total Disc Replacement: Results of a Post-hoc Analysis of Patients With Available Radiographs From a Prospective Study With 5-year Follow-up
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...
Multiple-Level Lumbar Total Disk Replacement
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....
Motion preservation following total lumbar disc replacement at the lumbosacral junction: a prospective long-term clinical and radiographic investigation
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.
Concurrent Use of Lumbar Total Disc Arthroplasty and Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: The Lumbar Hybrid Procedure for the Treatment of Multilevel Symptomatic Degenerative Disc Disease
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...
Clinical Outcomes of Outpatient Cervical Total Disc Replacement Compared With Outpatient Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
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...
7-Year Outcome Finds Two-Level Cervical Disc Replacement Statistically Superior Option in Treating Disc Disease in New Journal of of Neurosurgery Paper by Dr. Todd Lanman
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...
Could phones change the way our spines curve? Scientists warn an entire generation is plagued by 'text neck'
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.
Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy A Review of Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment
Dr. Cuéllar discusses cervical myelopathy caused by cervical spinal stenosis and its various treatments, including by laminoplasty, in a review article published this month.
Leading Spine Surgeon Talks Protecting Spine During Tennis
World Tennis Magazine article regarding back pain and spine issues in tennis players by Dr. Todd Lanman.
Intradiscal Injection of an Autologous Alpha-2- Macroglobulin (A2M) Concentrate Alleviates Back Pain in FAC-Positive Patients
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...
Cytokines in the Intervertebral Discs of Patients Undergoing Lumbar Discectomy and Fusion for Degenerative Disc Disease
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.
Beverly Hills Neurosurgeon Warns ‘Text Neck’ Could Cause Serious Damage
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...
Texting on mobile phones and musculoskeletal disorders in young adults: A five-year cohort study
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...
Does provocative discography cause clinically important injury to the lumbar intervertebral disc? A 10-year matched cohort study
Research published by Drs. Cuéllar et al provides strong evidence that discography may be cause more harm than good.
One Level Cervical Spine Clinical Trials
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.
Two Level Cervical Spine Clinical Trials
This study is seeking patients with degenerative cervical radiculopathy requiring surgical intervention, confirmed clinically and radiographically, at two contiguous vertebral...
Conversion of Failed Fusion to Disc Replacement
Watch Dr. Cuéllar's video on Conversion of Failed Fusion to Disc Replacement
Three Level Cervical ADR With Fusion Reversal
Watch Dr. Cuéllar's video on Three Level Cervical ADR With Fusion Reversal
Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement: D.N.
D.N. is a 36 year-old male with nearly 20 years of progressive low back pain. He loves to mountain bike and hike but his progressive low back pain was preventing him from doing...
One Level Lumbar Disc Replacement: N.D.
N.D. is a 44 year old gentleman with several years of low back pain, intermittent back spasms and more recently bilateral buttock pain. He exercises regularly and the pain has...
Two Level Lumbar Total Disc Replacement: D.R.
D.R. is a 49 year old man with chronic low back pain and intermittent sciatic pain.
Two Level Lumbar Total Disc Replacement: J.D.
J.D. is a 33 year old man with low back pain radiating down the leg into the calf. His hobbies including alpine skiing, which has been difficult due to the pain. After failing...
Three Level Lumbar Hybrid Fusion-Total Disc Replacement: B.H.
B.H. is a 40 year old male with over 20 years of low back pain after an injury while weight-lifting in college. The pain has been getting worse with more frequent bouts of debilitating...
Two Level Cervical Disc Replacement
51 year old gentleman who works as a massage therapist with progressively worsening neck pain radiating into his right shoulder. He began to develop weakness in his right arm which...
Deformity/Ankylosing Spondylitis: M.H.
M.H. is a 63 year old gentleman with a history of ankylosing spondylitis causing his entire spine to be fused in a bent forward position (kyphosis). This position was making it...
Two Level Lumbar Total Disc Replacement: T.B.
T.B. is a 37 year old man with chronic low back pain radiating into both legs. He works as a personal trainer and likes to race cars, hike, mountain bike and run. He has been unable...
Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement: J.H.
J.H. is a 27 year old gentleman over a year of neck pain and severe left arm pain that radiated into his middle finger.
One Level Cervical Disc Replacement: K.S.
K.S. is a 47 year old man who sustained a cervical spine injury resulting in a disc herniation at the C5-6 level. He was having neck pain that radiated to his right shoulder and...
Four Level Cervical Disc Replacement Case
81 year old active woman who loves to hike presented with numbness in hands and was found to have spinal stenosis with spinal cord compression at 4 levels.
Dr. Cuéllar Featured in Modern Luxury
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.
30+ Spine Surgeons Performing Artificial Disc Replacement | 2023
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...
Drs. Todd H. Lanman and Jason M. Cuellar Become First Surgeons in the U.S. to Perform 3-Level ADR With Prodisc® C Vivo
Dr. Cuellar of ADR Spine performed the first 3-level disc replacement using ProDisc Vivo.
Text Neck, Pinkie Pain and Other Ways Phones Can Wreck Our Bodies
Dr. Cuellar was recently featured in a New York Times article about how cell phone use can affect the neck.
Anterior Cervical Foraminotomy for Radiculopathy After Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement: Technique Description and Case Report
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)...
Outpatient Versus Inpatient Anterior Lumbar Spine Surgery:A Multisite, Comparative Analysis of Patient Safety
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...
Single and Multilevel Lumbar Total Disc Replacement Adjacent to L5-S1 ALIF (Lumbar Hybrid): 6 Years of Follow-up
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...
2021 Position Statement From the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery on Cervical and Lumbar Disc Replacement
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...
Are Robots for Spine Surgery Worth the Cost?
Drs. Cuellar and Lanman discuss their use and the future of robotic spine surgery.
Low Complication Rate of Anterior Lumbar Spine Surgery in an Ambulatory Surgery Center
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...
Restoration of Spinal Motion: Conversion of Anterior Cervical Fusion With Pseudarthrosis to Artificial Disc Replacement
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...
Centinel Spine Announces FDA Approval for Two-level prodisc® L Total Disc Replacement
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...
Cuéllar Spine Case Highlights
Drs. Todd H. Lanman and Jason M. Cuellar Become First Surgeons in the U.S. to Perform 3-Level ADR With Prodisc® C Vivo
Dr. Cuellar of ADR Spine performed the first 3-level disc replacement using ProDisc Vivo.
Text Neck, Pinkie Pain and Other Ways Phones Can Wreck Our Bodies
Dr. Cuellar was recently featured in a New York Times article about how cell phone use can affect the neck.
Anterior Cervical Foraminotomy for Radiculopathy After Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement: Technique Description and Case Report
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)...
Outpatient Versus Inpatient Anterior Lumbar Spine Surgery:A Multisite, Comparative Analysis of Patient Safety
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...
Single and Multilevel Lumbar Total Disc Replacement Adjacent to L5-S1 ALIF (Lumbar Hybrid): 6 Years of Follow-up
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...
2021 Position Statement From the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery on Cervical and Lumbar Disc Replacement
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...
Are Robots for Spine Surgery Worth the Cost?
Drs. Cuellar and Lanman discuss their use and the future of robotic spine surgery.
Low Complication Rate of Anterior Lumbar Spine Surgery in an Ambulatory Surgery Center
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...
Restoration of Spinal Motion: Conversion of Anterior Cervical Fusion With Pseudarthrosis to Artificial Disc Replacement
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...
Centinel Spine Announces FDA Approval for Two-level prodisc® L Total Disc Replacement
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...
Lanman Spinal Neurosurgery Opens Up 2-Level prodisc®Cervical SK and Vivo Clinical Trial in Los Angeles
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.
Lanman Spinal Neurosurgery Opens Up 2-Level prodisc®Cervical SK and Vivo Clinical Trial in Los Angeles
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...
FDA Approves New Device to Help Disc Pain Sufferers
Dr Cuéllar’s partner Dr. Lanman on CBS news speaking about the recent approval of the M6 cervical artificial disc replacement.
First-ever two-level M6 procedure performed in the USA
Drs. Cuellar and Lanman perform the first M6 artificial cervical disc replacement in California and the first two-level implantation in the U.S.
Cannabinoids Can Serve as Alternatives to Narcotic Pain Medication for Fracture Healing
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...
10 Things To Know About Spinal Disc Replacement
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...
FDA approval for M6-C artificial cervical disc
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...
Progression of Adjacent-level Degeneration After Lumbar Total Disc Replacement: Results of a Post-hoc Analysis of Patients With Available Radiographs From a Prospective Study With 5-year Follow-up
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...
Multiple-Level Lumbar Total Disk Replacement
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....
Motion preservation following total lumbar disc replacement at the lumbosacral junction: a prospective long-term clinical and radiographic investigation
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.
Concurrent Use of Lumbar Total Disc Arthroplasty and Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: The Lumbar Hybrid Procedure for the Treatment of Multilevel Symptomatic Degenerative Disc Disease
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...
Clinical Outcomes of Outpatient Cervical Total Disc Replacement Compared With Outpatient Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
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...
7-Year Outcome Finds Two-Level Cervical Disc Replacement Statistically Superior Option in Treating Disc Disease in New Journal of of Neurosurgery Paper by Dr. Todd Lanman
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...
Could phones change the way our spines curve? Scientists warn an entire generation is plagued by 'text neck'
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.
Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy A Review of Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment
Dr. Cuéllar discusses cervical myelopathy caused by cervical spinal stenosis and its various treatments, including by laminoplasty, in a review article published this month.
Leading Spine Surgeon Talks Protecting Spine During Tennis
World Tennis Magazine article regarding back pain and spine issues in tennis players by Dr. Todd Lanman.
Intradiscal Injection of an Autologous Alpha-2- Macroglobulin (A2M) Concentrate Alleviates Back Pain in FAC-Positive Patients
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...
Cytokines in the Intervertebral Discs of Patients Undergoing Lumbar Discectomy and Fusion for Degenerative Disc Disease
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.
Beverly Hills Neurosurgeon Warns ‘Text Neck’ Could Cause Serious Damage
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...
Texting on mobile phones and musculoskeletal disorders in young adults: A five-year cohort study
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...
Does provocative discography cause clinically important injury to the lumbar intervertebral disc? A 10-year matched cohort study
Research published by Drs. Cuéllar et al provides strong evidence that discography may be cause more harm than good.
One Level Cervical Spine Clinical Trials
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.
Two Level Cervical Spine Clinical Trials
This study is seeking patients with degenerative cervical radiculopathy requiring surgical intervention, confirmed clinically and radiographically, at two contiguous vertebral...
Conversion of Failed Fusion to Disc Replacement
Watch Dr. Cuéllar's video on Conversion of Failed Fusion to Disc Replacement
Three Level Cervical ADR With Fusion Reversal
Watch Dr. Cuéllar's video on Three Level Cervical ADR With Fusion Reversal
Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement: D.N.
D.N. is a 36 year-old male with nearly 20 years of progressive low back pain. He loves to mountain bike and hike but his progressive low back pain was preventing him from doing...
One Level Lumbar Disc Replacement: N.D.
N.D. is a 44 year old gentleman with several years of low back pain, intermittent back spasms and more recently bilateral buttock pain. He exercises regularly and the pain has...
Two Level Lumbar Total Disc Replacement: D.R.
D.R. is a 49 year old man with chronic low back pain and intermittent sciatic pain.
Two Level Lumbar Total Disc Replacement: J.D.
J.D. is a 33 year old man with low back pain radiating down the leg into the calf. His hobbies including alpine skiing, which has been difficult due to the pain. After failing...
Three Level Lumbar Hybrid Fusion-Total Disc Replacement: B.H.
B.H. is a 40 year old male with over 20 years of low back pain after an injury while weight-lifting in college. The pain has been getting worse with more frequent bouts of debilitating...
Two Level Cervical Disc Replacement
51 year old gentleman who works as a massage therapist with progressively worsening neck pain radiating into his right shoulder. He began to develop weakness in his right arm which...
Deformity/Ankylosing Spondylitis: M.H.
M.H. is a 63 year old gentleman with a history of ankylosing spondylitis causing his entire spine to be fused in a bent forward position (kyphosis). This position was making it...
Two Level Lumbar Total Disc Replacement: T.B.
T.B. is a 37 year old man with chronic low back pain radiating into both legs. He works as a personal trainer and likes to race cars, hike, mountain bike and run. He has been unable...
Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement: J.H.
J.H. is a 27 year old gentleman over a year of neck pain and severe left arm pain that radiated into his middle finger.
One Level Cervical Disc Replacement: K.S.
K.S. is a 47 year old man who sustained a cervical spine injury resulting in a disc herniation at the C5-6 level. He was having neck pain that radiated to his right shoulder and...
Four Level Cervical Disc Replacement Case
81 year old active woman who loves to hike presented with numbness in hands and was found to have spinal stenosis with spinal cord compression at 4 levels.
Dr. Cuéllar Featured in Modern Luxury
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.
30+ Spine Surgeons Performing Artificial Disc Replacement | 2023
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...
One Level Cervical Spine Clinical Trials
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.
Two Level Cervical Spine Clinical Trials
This study is seeking patients with degenerative cervical radiculopathy requiring surgical intervention, confirmed clinically and radiographically, at two contiguous vertebral...
Conversion of Failed Fusion to Disc Replacement
Watch Dr. Cuéllar's video on Conversion of Failed Fusion to Disc Replacement
Three Level Cervical ADR With Fusion Reversal
Watch Dr. Cuéllar's video on Three Level Cervical ADR With Fusion Reversal
Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement: D.N.
D.N. is a 36 year-old male with nearly 20 years of progressive low back pain. He loves to mountain bike and hike but his progressive low back pain was preventing him from doing...
One Level Lumbar Disc Replacement: N.D.
N.D. is a 44 year old gentleman with several years of low back pain, intermittent back spasms and more recently bilateral buttock pain. He exercises regularly and the pain has...
Two Level Lumbar Total Disc Replacement: D.R.
D.R. is a 49 year old man with chronic low back pain and intermittent sciatic pain.
Two Level Lumbar Total Disc Replacement: J.D.
J.D. is a 33 year old man with low back pain radiating down the leg into the calf. His hobbies including alpine skiing, which has been difficult due to the pain. After failing...
Three Level Lumbar Hybrid Fusion-Total Disc Replacement: B.H.
B.H. is a 40 year old male with over 20 years of low back pain after an injury while weight-lifting in college. The pain has been getting worse with more frequent bouts of debilitating...
Two Level Cervical Disc Replacement
51 year old gentleman who works as a massage therapist with progressively worsening neck pain radiating into his right shoulder. He began to develop weakness in his right arm which...