Spine Questions and Answers | Neurosurgeon versus Spine Surgeon | Lumber Spine Specialist | Vail, CO

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Dr. Corenman wraps up his discussion on the Lumbar Spine A-Z lecture in this final video. He asks the audience: “Would you like to see a professional (private) spine study forum that is blended or for specific for each specialty? His neckandback.com/forum is an informative quorum of individuals who ask spine questions where Dr. Corenman answers each and every inquiry. This forum is separated into individual titled segments so search is easy for specific topics. Dr. Corenman also provide long-distance consultations for patients who would like to connect or receive a second opinion.

On top of that, Dr. Corenman offers office preceptorships where medical healthcare workers are welcome to come to the Vail clinic either on clinic days to observe new patient work-ups or on surgery days to observe spine operation.

As the lecture wraps up, Dr. Corenman responds to some of the questions from his audience. Here are a few of his responses:

1. Dr. Corenman tried to develop a system to rate doctors because the information is currently available such as regarding dura leak rates infection rates, or success rates because they are not published nor available to be published. He believes insurance companies may be starting to collect data now, but they are not going to give them out. It would be nice to have that data to see because they call their clients 60 days, 90 days and a year out sending them questionnaires asking, “How are you doing?” This data would be invaluable, but it’s not available.

2. The interesting thing about neuro versus spine is that spine surgeons have been doing this since the dinosaurs walked the earth. Neurosurgeons generally get into neurosurgery to do brain surgery, find out there isn’t enough business to do brain surgery and end up doing spine surgery. There can be some very fine, very good neurosurgeons and there can be some very bad spine surgeons. Here is one statistic: 50% of the work Dr. Corenman does is revision surgery for failure from patients to come in from other places and 80% of those patients are neurosurgical patients.

3.. For Dr. Corenman, an X-ray is inevitable if a patient is in significant pain and they have been treated for it for anywhere for 6 weeks and 6 months and the pain is still present. You need to find out what is going on. Kids as you see get all sorts of mechanical disorders and X-rays are important.

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With more than 30 years of experience, Donald Corenman, MD, DC, is a highly-regarded spine surgeon, considered an expert in the area of neck and back pain. His training as a Doctor of Chiropractic early in his career did not satisfy his desire for a deep understanding of the mechanics of the spine. This led him to medical school where he completed his Doctor of Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery Residency and Spine Surgery Fellowship. His study of spinal disorders and deformities brought him to Vail, Colorado where he joined The Steadman Clinic in 1994. With personalized clinical care a cornerstone of Dr. Corenman’s practice, he has been awarded the “Top 10 Doctor Award”, “Patient’s Choice Award”, “Compassionate Doctor Recognition” and is consistently recognized by Becker’s Spine Review in “Top Spine Surgeons to Know.”

Dr. Corenman has published two books: for patients, “Everything You Wanted to Know About the Back: A Consumers Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Lower Back Pain” and for the medical community, “The Clinician’s Guidebook to Lumbar Spine Disorders: Diagnosis & Treatment”. He is passionate about educating patients on spine anatomy and disorders, so they have the ability to partner with their physicians in finding the most effective treatment for their back pain and disorders. His focus on peer education earned academic appointments as Clinical Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and his research on spine surgery and rehabilitation has resulted in the publication of multiple peer-reviewed articles.