"My goal is to provide my patients with the least invasive, most successful approach for their spine problem. In the past this often meant spinal fusion through open surgery. Now, minimally invasive surgery can achieve a better outcome and a quicker recovery. In many cases motion preservation with Dynesys dynamic stabilization rather than rigid fusion is one of the options discussed."
Arizona Spine Care Alliance
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States
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Phoenix, Arizona 85015 United States
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Dr. Michael H. Winer, MD, Scottsdale, AZ, 85260
Michael H. Winer, MD is a board certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in the diagnosis, conservative and surgical treatment of thoracic and lumbar spinal problems. He treats both private and workers compensation patients. His expertise includes traditional and minimally invasive surgical techniques to treat back pain, spinal stenosis, herniated discs, spondylolisthesis, failed back surgery and other degenerative or traumatic conditions. Dr. Winer is one of the developers and key surgeons of the minimally invasive ATAVI spine surgery system. Using this technique he can perform spinal surgeries, including most fusions, through small incisions (about 1 inch) rather than the standard long, muscle-damaging incision. He also performs Dynesys dynamic stabilization in most cases in a minimally invasive manner using the Atavi technique. Dynamic stabilization is being done in many cases that previously required a spine fusion.
Type of Spine Care Professional
Areas Served
Conditions and Treatments
Conditions
- Degenerative disc disease
- Degenerative spinal conditions
- Herniated disc / bulging disc
- Ligament strain
- Lumbar spine disorders
- Muscle pain / muscle strain
- Myelopathy
- Osteoarthritis
- Sciatica / radiculopathy
- Scoliosis and deformity
- Spinal stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Thoracic spine disorders
- Trauma
- Tumors
Treatments
- Discectomy
- Dynamic lumbar stabilization
- Exercise
- IDET
- Kyphoplasty
- Lower back surgery
- Microdiscectomy / microdecompression
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Physical therapy
- Spinal fusion
- Upper back surgery
- Vertebroplasty
Professional Affiliations
- American Academy of Minimally Invasive Spinal Medicine and Surgery
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- Alpha Omega Alpha
- International Intradiscal Therapy Society
- North American Spine Society
Certifications
- American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1976
Professional Distinctions
- 25 years of experience as an orthopedic spinal surgeon. Formerly a clinical instructor in orthopedic surgery at Barnes Hospital, Washington University, St Louis, MO from 1975-93 and attending surgeon to the Spine Clinic at the St. Louis Shriners Hospital. Clinical research and teaching experience including pedicle screw fusions, chymopapain, bone fusions with BMP (infuse bone morphogenetic protein), Kyphoplasty, IDET, endoscopic, discectomy, and endoscopic spinal fusion (Atavi system).