Treatments
Use the options below to explore potential treatments for your medical needs.
Types of treatment or procedure:
- Arms, Elbows and Shoulders
- Back and neck
- Bladder
- Bowel
- Cosmetic and reconstructive
- Dermatology
- Ear, nose and throat
- Eyes
- Fertility
- Foot and ankle
- Gender affirmation
- Hands and Wrists
- Head and Neck
- Heart
- Hips
- Knees
- Legs and Buttocks
- Lifestyle management
- Men's health
- Oncology
- Other Treatments and Medicine
- Paediatrics
- Pregnancy
- Stomach
- Weight loss
- Women's health
Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
An anterior cervical discectomy is an operation performed on your upper spine to relieve pain caused by a herniated disc.
Cervical Disc Replacement
Wear and tear or injury in your neck can result in a narrowing of your spinal cord. Pressure on the nerves in this area can cause pain. An alternative to traditional spinal decompression uses surgical implants to replace damaged or diseased cervical discs.
Cervical Spine Surgery
Cervical spine surgery at Nuffield Health can take many forms, including myelopathy, cervical disc replacement, cervical neuropathy, cervical spondylitis and disc prolapse.
Chemical Sympathectomy
Your sympathetic nerves run down the front of your spine outside your spinal column.
Correction of scoliosis
Scoliosis is a curvature or bend of the spine. Symptoms of scoliosis can include back pain and intense nerve pain as nerves are compressed by the bend in your spine.
Dorsal root ganglion block
The dorsal root ganglion is the area of a spinal nerve that connects the nerves to your spine. This area sends impulses from nerves to your spinal cord.
Epidural anaesthetic
An epidural anaesthetic involves injecting local anaesthetic into an area called the epidural space near your spinal cord.
Epidural injection for pain relief
An epidural is a type of pain-killing injection given by an anaesthetist.
Facet joint injections
A facet joint injection involves injecting local anaesthetics and sometimes steroids into or around a facet joint.
Interspinous implant
New technology now offers patients with spinal stenosis pain relief using small devices (called spacers).
Kyphoplasty
A kyphoplasty is a minimally invasive procedure to correct an osteoporotic vertebral fracture and further stabilise your spine.
Laminectomy
During a laminectomy the surgeon removes enough bone and tissue from the back of the spine to free trapped nerves.
Lumbar disc replacement
Lumbar disc replacement is the replacement of a damaged or diseased disc in the spine, with an artificial disc to maintain movement in the treated spine area.
Lumbar discectomy
During lumbar discectomy a surgeon will remove the herniated portion of a disc relieving the pressure on nearby nerves. The procedure is often performed with minimal invasion and often referred to as microdiscectomy.
Lumbar sympathetic blocks
A lumbar sympathetic block is an injection of local anesthetic into or around the sympathetic nerves.
Medial facetectomy
A medial facetectomy is a procedure to release nerves trapped by diseased or injured facet joints.
Minimally invasive spinal surgery
Advances in medical technology mean many spinal procedures can now be performed as minimally invasive surgery.
Parotid gland removal (parotidectomy)
Your parotid glands are salivary glands located just in front of your ear.
Removal of spinal hardware
During spinal fusion your consultant used surgical plates, rods or screws to weld your spine together eliminating motion that caused you back pain.
Sacroiliac joint injections
Sacroiliac joint injections involve injecting anti-inflammatories or anaesthetic into problem areas.
Spinal (lumbar) Decompression
Spinal decompression is a type of back surgery used to release trapped nerves in the lower (lumbar) spine.
Spinal anaesthetic
Spinal anaesthetic, also known as a spinal block, is administered by injecting drugs into an area called the subarachnoid space near the spinal cord. Spinal anaesthesia can be used while you are awake or in combination with sedation or general anaesthetic.
Spinal fusion surgery
Spinal fusion is an operation to weld or fuse together the small bones in your back eliminating motion that is causing back pain.
Vertebroplasty
A vertebroplasy is a minimally invasive procedure to correct an osteoporotic vertebral fracture and further stabilise your spine.
X-Ray Guided Facet Joint Injection
A facet joint injection involves injecting local anaesthetics and sometimes steroids into or around a facet joint. The local anaesthetics numb the nerves to the facet joint to give pain relief. The steroids reduce inflammation and may make the pain relief last longer.