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Ipswich Hospital
We can offer the following treatments for your back problems:
- nerve root blocks
- facet joint injections
- lumbar discectomy
- lumbar decompression
- lumbar fusion
- cervical discectomy
- cervical decompression
- cervical fusion
- procedures for spinal fractures or tumours.
How to get here
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Location
Use entrance 3 to access the Spinal Unit
Contact
01473 712 233
Staying in hospital
Ward information
Operations are carried out at Ipswich Hospital. Patients are cared for on our specialist orthopaedic ward – Martlesham Ward – and our MSK Admissions Unit.
Our service
We treat adults from across Essex and Suffolk for all spinal conditions, including:
- adult spinal deformity
- back pain
- cervical stenosis
- coccydynia (pain in coccyx)
- disc prolapse
- degenerative disc dIsease
- spinal stenosis
- spinal trauma and infection
- spinal tumours
- spondylolisthesis.
Based at Ipswich Hospital we can also give people advice on all spinal conditions.
We work together as a team to help you, this team includes:
- physiotherapists
- spinal surgeons
- pain specialists
- radiologists
- occupational therapists
- nurse specialists.
We can offer the following treatments for your back problems:
- cervical discectomy
- cervical decompression
- cervical fusion
- lumbar discectomy
- lumbar decompression
- lumbar fusion
- facet joint injections
- nerve root blocks
- procedures for spinal fractures or tumours.
For more information about back problems go to the NHS Choices website
For information about spinal surgery and other treatments, go to the:
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