Spine Center with a high success rate in high-risk surgeries
Spine Center in KDH implements high-risk tests, including discography and tests using advanced equipment, including the state-of-art MRI and 3D CT, enabling 3D imaging related to a variety of spinal diseases. Thus, the Center can diagnose the patients’ diseases more accurately and in more detail. The Center conducts surgeries including PSLD (Posterior Stenoscopic Lumbar Decompression) and interspinous Smart-U surgery and the latest surgery techniques, using lasers or an endoscope after microincisions. Furthermore, the Center conducts surgeries using the most advanced technology, including artificial disc replacement and spinal fusion using a shape memory alloy. Moreover, the Center applies non-operative therapies using rehabilitation and chiropractics as well as operative therapy.

Quick cooperation system with all departments related to the spine
The Center always makes every endeavor to treat patients’ diseases including lumbar pain and severe spinal diseases in cooperation with the Department of Orthopedics, the Department of Neurosurgery, the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain, and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. The Center pursues pleasant treatment from conservative care through surgery to pain care and rehabilitation after surgery with cooperative treatment among relevant Departments. In addition, the Center makes doubly sure to treat the patients’ spinal diseases with the leading medical staff in Korea, who are rich clinical experience and up to date with the latest knowledge.

Surgical Techniques in the Spine Center
- Microscopic Discectomy, Automated Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy (APLD), Percutaneous Laser Discectomy (PLD), Arthroscopic Discectomy, Endoscopically Assisted microdiscectomy
- Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET)
- nimally Invasive Percutaneous Pedicle Screw Fixation and Fusion (SEXTANT)
- Kyphoplasty
- Artificial Disc Prosthesis
- Posterior Lumbar interbody Fusion Cage, Posterior Spinal Fusion
- Kyphosis, Lordosis, Scoliosis
- Inflammatory spinal diseases
- Spinal tumor