About the Bloggers

The Spine-health Blog is an educational and editorial tool authored and maintained by Spine-health staff. Unlike most Spine-health articles, this area is not peer-reviewed.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 Spine-health staff. Thanks for using the Spine-health.com blog–be sure to subscribe to this blog in your RSS reader or follow us on Twitter!

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 based on the belief 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.

In addition to his peer-reviewed back pain articles, Dr. Ullrich blogs about personal opinions and issues regarding spine surgery and spine medicine. Read more about Dr. Ullrich at his practice page.

Stephanie Burke

The CEO and co-founder of Spine-health, Stephanie shares the goal of providing intelligent, unbiased and highly relevant medical information and community support for people dealing with a wide range of pain conditions and related issues, including back pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia, depression, osteoporosis, sleep disorders, exercise, diet and more.

She blogs about special interest stories, and pays special attention to information sent in from the thousands of people visiting Spine-health.com each day, all in the hope that full information will help individuals make better choices. Contact Stephanie at Sburke at spine-health.com.

Sylvia Marten

Sylvia Marten is the President of Spine-health, and oversees the day-to-day operations of the business, including sales and marketing. Sylvia leverages 14 years of experience in online health, sales and business development, marketing, and strategic consulting to create successful experiences between Spine-health’s unique back pain consumers/patients and physicians - and the companies that wish to market to them.

Sylvia will occasionally blog about news relevant to back pain sufferers, tips and ideas for managing pain, trends and events in the pain market, health online media and marketing. Contact Sylvia at Smarten at spine-health.com.