About the Bloggers

The Spine-health.com blog is an educational and editorial tool authored and maintained by Spine-health.com staff. Unlike most Spine-health.com articles, this is area is not peer-reviewed. Specific questions concerning your health should always be discussed with your doctor.

Comments are published on the fly, but are moderated by our medical director, Dr. Peter Ullrich, Jr., Spine-health.com medical advisors, and Spine-health.com staff. Thanks for using the Spine-health.com blog - be sure to subscribe to this blog in your RSS reader!

Peter Ullrich, Jr., MD

Doctor Ullrich is an orthopedic spine surgeon at the NeuroSpine Center of Wisconsin and co-founder and Medical Director for Spine-health.com.

He started Spine-health.com and is actively committed to it because he believes that patients deserve the same quality of medical information as physicians – that is, information that has been independently peer reviewed by other physicians to ensure accuracy, completeness, and lack of any commercial influence.

Now, in addition to the peer reviewed back pain articles, Dr. Ullrich blogs – as often as he can – about personal opinions and issues he wants to address regarding spine medicine and in particular spine surgery. Read more about Dr. Ullrich at his practice page.

Stephanie Burke

Stephanie co-founded Spine-health.com and runs the day to day operations of the site. She frequently contributes to the blog, commenting on breaking news, insights and - especially - information sent in from the thousands of people visiting Spine-health.com everyday. All in the hope that full information will help individuals make better choices. Read more about Stephanie. Contact Stephanie at Sburke at spine-health.com.

Sylvia Marten

Sylvia Marten heads up the marketing efforts at Spine-health.com. In her role, Sylvia leverages over 11 years of experience in sales and marketing, business development, and strategic consulting to create successful experiences between Spine-health’s unique chronic pain consumers/patients and physicians - and the companies that wish to market to them.

Sylvia will occasionally blog about trends and events in the chronic pain market, in online media and in marketing as they pertain to the health information space. She has a special interest in osteoporosis, exercise and fitness, and health on the Internet. Contact Sylvia at Smarten at spine-health.com.