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Richard Obedian MD, Director of Island Spine and Sports, and neurosurgeon, Dr. William Sonstein, have cultivated a successful partnership that allows them to offer more options to patients who have more complicated surgical needs. The team has been working together for over ten years and has come up with some very successful tactics for handling revision surgeries, which are often much more complicated than initial surgeries. In addition, the team is able to feed off each other’s expertise to really give their patients the best options for their particular situations. Revision surgeries are not something that Richard Obedian MD or Dr. Sonstein like to recommend but they are sometimes the only option for a patient. A patient who had a surgery many years prior can be experiencing back pain again for a number of reasons. Once the team has gotten to the bottom of why the patient may be in pain again, they will decide what the next steps need to be for the patient. The combination of orthopedics and neurosurgery is common for spinal surgeries but because the pair has spent so much time actually performing the surgeries together, they are more efficient and effective in their expertise. Dr. Sonstein has said that the way their procedures complement each other results in their patients spending less time under anesthesia and experiencing less blood loss. For example, some patients require both of their specialty procedures; Richard Obedian MD performs the X-Stop while Dr. Sonstein performs the posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PILF). Richard Obedian MD performs the X-Stop on patients to actually reduce the pain by installing a device that allows for flexibility. Dr. Sonstein’s PILF procedure is one that involves actually opening a patient’s back and removing the discs that are causing the problems. They then perform bone grafts to make the spinal cord more stable and to prevent the nearby discs from slipping (and causing the same issues all over again). These procedures must be done with the utmost care, precision, and expertise. Richard Obedian MD always encourages his students and colleagues to consider working with neurosurgeons in their practices. Partnerships in the medical field almost always strengthen the service provided to the patients. The patients will, in turn, appreciate the specialized attention and treatment given by both doctors. Richard Obedian MD and Dr. William Sonstein plan to work together for many years to come as they feel they provide a truly unique and useful service to their patients. http://nspc.com/news-secondsurgerySonstein.html
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