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Our Spine Services

At UPMC, our spine care experts understand that living with back pain or a spinal disorder can impact your quality of life. That is why we offer a range of specialized spine care services, including surgical and nonsurgical treatment options.

UPMC’s spine specialists provide comprehensive, personalized care using the most advanced techniques, technology, and treatments.


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What Are Spine Services?

Spine services at UPMC provide advanced surgical and nonsurgical care for people with back pain and other spinal disorders.

What Spine Conditions Do We Treat?

UPMC experts take a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to spine care to ensure you receive leading-edge care from a team of specialists. Your spine care team will work together to develop a custom treatment plan to relieve pain, treat symptoms, and return you to an active, healthy lifestyle.

Learn more about what spine conditions we treat at UPMC.

Who Is Eligible for Spine Services?

If you are having back pain or have been diagnosed with another type of spinal disorder, the spine care experts at UPMC can help.

Our experts will perform tests to accurately diagnose your condition and then create a customized treatment plan to relieve your symptoms.

What Spine Services Do You Offer?

Our team offers a full range of spine services.

Spine imaging and muscle nerve tests

Imaging tests provide your doctor with information about your bones, discs, nerves, and tissues.

Learn more about spine tests we offer at UPMC.

Nonsurgical spine care

We can effectively treat or manage many spine conditions with nonsurgical care.

Nonsurgical treatment options include:

  • Physical medicine and rehabilitation — Nonsurgical treatment that focuses on restoring function in people with musculoskeletal disorders and chronic pain.
  • Pain management — A multidisciplinary management of pain through evidence-based medicine, interventional procedures, medication management, rehabilitation, and holistic approaches.
  • Telemedicine.
  • At-home care — Rest, ice, heat, and gentle stretching or movement may help to improve or manage your symptoms.
  • Back and spine physical therapy — A noninvasive treatment that combines therapies, such as exercise, massage, heat/cold therapy, and electrical stimulation, to manage and treat pain and other symptoms of back and spine conditions.
  • Medication — Over-the-counter (OTC) or prescription medication can help manage pain and other symptoms.

Spine surgical procedures

Our spine experts use state-of-the-art technology and techniques to perform a full range of surgical procedures to treat all types of spinal disorders.

Learn more about spine procedures available at UPMC.


By UPMC Editorial Staff. Last reviewed on 2025-06-26.

UPMC HealthBeat

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