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Washingtonian Magazine Top Doctors

The Spine Care Center has the most experienced, respected, and well educated specialists in the fields of Interventional Pain Management, Orthopedic Spine Surgery, and Neurosurgery.  For two years in a row, the Washintonian magazine has recognized Dr. Bassam as one of the Top Doctors in Pain Management. When asking thousands of physicians across the region, “If someone in your family were sick, which doctor would you call?” Dr. Bassam was one of their top choices.

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Specialties

Pain Management

There is an intense level of public interest, research, and increasing recognition of pain as a primary problem in and of itself. Historically taught as an important symptom of disease, a new realization in the medical community now identifies pain as the only real problem for many patients. Pain often is the disease process, rather than a mere symptom of an ongoing disease process. Within this area, interv entional pain management is the discipline of using minimally invasive techniques to diagnose and treat pain.

Interventional Pain Management is the use of precise, state of the art techniques for percutaneous treatment of painful conditions. These are effective needle and probe-using techniques which minimize patient discomfort while avoiding many surgical and anesthetic risks and expenses. Our approach maximizes efficiency and improves outcomes while also providing valuable diagnostic information which can guide and reinforce multidisciplinary efforts.

We specialize in the management of the following causes of pain:

  • Neck Pain
  • Low Back Pain
  • Herniated Discs
  • Facet Arthritis
  • SI Joint Dysfunction
  • Musculoskeletal Pain
  • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
  • Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)
  • Radiculopathy
  • Neuralgia
  • Sciatica
  • Post Laminectomy Syndrome
  • Shingles (Post Herpetic Neuralgia)
  • Diabetic Neuropathy
  • Post Amputation Pain
  • Cancer Pain Management
  • Persistent Pain after Back Surgery
 

Orthopedic Spine Surgery

The Spine Care Center has surgeons that are specialized in minimally invasive spine surgery, disc replacement surgery, and the newest techniques. We have neurosurgical as well as orthopedic spinal specialists on staff who frequently collaborate together.  This surgical synergy, unlike single-specialty medical practices, allows us to provide comprehensive spinal care from both  the perspective of Orthopedic Surgery and Neurosurgery.  We are the only medical center in Gainesville, Woodbridge, or Manassas offering these benefits.

The procedures we perform include Kyphoplasty, Vertebroplasy, X-Lif, Trans1, Nuvasive Neurovision, Endoscopic discectomy, X-Stop, Microdiscectomy, Foraminotomy, Lumbar Laminectomy, Artificial disc replacement(including Prodisc-C), and minimally invasive spine fusion.  We also use surgical procedures as the last resort once all other treatment methods have been tried. We believe using minimally invasive procedures and regard patient safety and mobility as are primary focus. The Spine Care Center looks forward to restoring function and getting you back to your normal life style.

The surgeons on our staff at Gainesville, Woodbridge, and Manassas recognize the importance of minimally invasive and minimally disruptive surgical procedures as this allows patients to return to work sooner.  By focusing on minimizing muscle trauma, we can get patients back sooner than the traditional surgical procedures.

Our surgeons can discuss if you are a candidate for the following procedures at our Gainesville, Woodbridge, or Manassas offices:

  • XLIF
  • XSTOP
  • TRANS1
  • TLIF
  • PLIF
  • Posterior spine fusion
  • Minimally invasive spine fusion
  • Percutaneous pedicle fixation
  • Endoscopic discectomy
  • Microdiscectomy
  • Hemilaminotomy
  • Minimally invasive spinal decompression
  • ACDF
  • Total disc replacement, cervical
  • Total disc replacement, lumbar

 Our procedures meet surgical needs in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine due to:

  • Injuries
  • Trauma
  • Fractures
  • Infections
  • Degenerative Discs
  • Scoliosis in children and adults
  • Spinal Stenosis
  • Spinal Arthritis
 

Neurosurgery

We offer a full range of neurosurgical services. These include diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the full spectrum of surgical problems of brain and spinal cord.

We recognize that the diagnosis of a brain tumor or an aneurysm is intimidating. We offer a compassionate, patient oriented approach to treatment of these disorders. Our neurosurgeon is well trained in the latest techniques in treating brain tumors of all varieties. We offer the latest in "Brain Navigation" - a minimally invasive way to navigate around the brain to pinpoint the problem area without causing disruption of normal brain tissue. We present patients with all the options available to them for the treatment of their diagnosis. This may be surgical or non-surgical depending on the condition. Conditions treated by our physicians:

  • Benign Brain Tumors (e.g. Meningioma)
  • Malignant Brain Tumors (e.g. Glioma, GBM)
  • Tumors Spread to the Brain from other areas (Metastatic Tumors)
  • Pituitary Tumors
  • Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Brain Hemorrhage
  • Subdural Hematoma
  • Benign Spinal Cord Tumors
  • Aggressive Spinal Cord Tumors
  • Brain Aneurysms
We practice the latest techniques in Brain Surgery (craniotomy, mini-craniotomy, key hole craniotomy) and offer minimally invasive tumor biopsy (stereotactic Biopsy).
 

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