Our Services
Neurosurgery
- Brain + Spine Tumors
- Chiari Malformation
- Brain + Spine Trauma
- Skull + Spine fractures
- Hydrocephalus
- Deep Brain Stimulation for movement disorders
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery
- Minimally invasive cervical foraminotomy
- Minimally invasive cervical laminectomy
- Cervical artificial disc placement
- Anterior cervical discectomy with interbody fusion (ACDF)
- Anterior cervical corpectomy
- Open cervical laminectomy
- Open cervical laminectomy with instrumented fusion
- Cervical laminectomy for placement of cervical spinal cord stimulator paddle
- Cervical laminectomy for tumor resection
- Minimally invasive thoracic laminectomy
- Minimally invasive hemilaminectomy with microdiscectomy
- Placement of permanent spinal cord stimulator system through thoracic laminectomy
- Laminectomy for trauma or tumor resection
- Minimally invasive laminectomy
- Minimally invasive hemilaminectomy
- Minimally invasive foraminotomy / facetectomy
- Minimally invasive microdiscectomy
- Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF)
- Revision spinal surgery to repair adjacent segment level above or below prior surgery breakdown
- Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF)
- Lumbar artificial disc placement
- Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (XLIF)
- Adult deformity correction surgery
- Laminectomy for tumor resection
- Kyphoplasty
- Sl Bone sacroiliac joint fusion
- Craniotomy for stereotactic resection of tumor
- Stereotactic brain biopsy
- Craniotomy for subdural/epidural hematoma
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery -Gamma Knife
- Deep brain stimulation for movement disorders
- Suboccipital craniectomy for Chiari 1 malformation
- Ventriculoperitoneal shunt for hydrocephalus
- Carpel Tunnel
- Ulnar nerve
Cervical
Thoracic
Lumbar
Cranial
Other
- 1-4 weeks pre-surgery: Signed surgery consent forms with insurance approval
- 1-2 weeks pre-surgery: Scheduling with hospital or surgery center
- 1-7 days pre-surgery: Pre-Operative medical clearance by Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner in office, Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner at Hospital or both
- 1-3 days post-surgery: Patient will be discharged to home, home with homecare, skilled nursing facility for a couple of weeks, or to a rehab hospital. This is dependent on patient needs
- 1-2 weeks post-surgery: Post up follow up with Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner or Surgeon
Pre-surgery
Patients may need primary care clearance, pulmonology or cardiology clearance. Pre-Op clearance needs to be completed within 30 days of surgery
Pain Management
- A comprehensive Physical Examination
- Trigger Point injection treatment for painful muscles
- All joint injections for arthritis
- Ultrasound guided lumbar and cervical joint injections
- Botulinum toxin (Botox™) injection treatment for painful muscle conditions, muscle stiffness, and chronic headaches
- Lumbar epidural steroid injection treatments
- Hylan (Synvisc-cushioning protein) gel injection for large joints
- Osteopathic manual medicine
- Prescribing specific physical therapy prescriptions for proper rehabilitation
- Prescribing bracing
- Prescribing multiple pain management medications
- Coaching patients to develop proper home exercise programs.
- Dr. Jaffe has 20+ years of experience running clinics for all bracing and limb prosthetics
- Dr. Jaffe specializes in rehabilitation needs both physical and medical management for stroke spinal cord injury, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, hypermobility syndromes, and any neurologic degenerative disorder
- Medical Marijuana Card evaluation and enrollment
- Trigger Point injections for muscle pain syndromes
- All Tendon and bursa injections
- All joint injections from small finger joints to large shoulder, hip, and knee injections (ultrasound guidance available)
- Sacroiliac joint injections
- Piriformis muscle injections
- Ultrasound guided spinal joint (facet) injections
- Epidural Steroid lnjections for spinal and sciatic distribution pain
- Botulinum toxin (Botox™) injections for chronic headaches, muscle pain syndromes, and muscle stiffness, jaw clenching etc
- Platelet Rich Plasma (regenerative medicine) injections for tendon problems and joint arthritis
- Hyaluronic acid (Synvisc-One ) gel injections for arthritic joints
- Intrathecal Baclofen pump recommendations, refill, and management
- Osteopathic Manual Medicine (OMT)
