Bumrungrad Spine Institute is prepared to provide a comprehensive range of treatment and care for spine-related matters, with the experience of treating more than 12,000 spine patients in 12 years.

Bumrungrad Spine Institute was established with the medical team’s commitment to working towards standards of excellence in treatment quality as well as relentlessly bringing in advanced approaches and technologies to care for spine patients. All this is with the aim to deliver care with positive outcomes allowing patients to return to their daily routines with good quality of life.

Bumrungrad Spine Institute has also been providing training in spinal surgery through endoscopes for the Asian region continuously for more than 12 years, both in Thailand and Germany. Professor Sebastien Ruetten, who invented the technique, chose the institute to work in collaboration with Saint Anna-Herne Hospital in Germany, seeting up a second training center for endoscopic surgery in Asia after Germany.  With the workshops organized regularly, Thai surgeons from Bumrungrad Spine Institute, along with Professor Sebastien Ruetten, have now trained more than 2,000 spine surgeons from various countries. In fact, the 52nd workshop was offered early in 2022. 
 

To be one of the world/international leading spine institutions which provides holistic spine service, educational program and research

 

• To provide holistic, innovative, value base spine care with teamwork concept
• To establish and maintain educational programs for spine physicians, nurses and physiotherapists
• To promote research and publication

Spine Surgeons

• The medical professional team at the Spine Institute has over 12 years of experience.
  • Spine surgeons
  • Pain management specialists
  • Rehabilitation specialists 
• Endoscopic spinal surgery workshops regularly organized for over 10 years
• A multidisciplinary team of professionals working together including spine nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and physiotherapists
• A conference of 10-13 medical professionals (spine surgeons, pain specialists, rehabilitation specialists, specialized nurses) held to decide on the treatment plan that is good and appropriate particularly for each individual patient.

Treatment Outcomes at Bumrungrad Spine Institute

To depict the reliability of quality care and safety outcomes for patients, here are the indicators compared with benchmarks set by leading international hospitals or published and recognized research results.

• Surgery quality and safety are well taken care of as seen in the rate of surgical site infection (SSI), which stood at merely 0.83% in 2021, even lower than the 1.62% outcome at a top hospital in the United States.    
• In 2021, screw accuracy in spine surgery at Bumrungrad Spine Institute stood at 100%, such a high rate that has been rarely reported.

Spine Surgery at Bumrungrad

We deliver every spine surgery with utmost care ensuring safety as well as reduced post-surgery infection.

• We provide care of international standards.
• Our team of medical professionals are experienced and expert in minimally invasive surgery.
  • Small incisions, less pain, fast recovery
  • Reduced post-surgery infection
  • Reduced tissue damage from surgery
  • Reduced post-surgery pain and medication
     
• Advanced equipment and technology
  • Endoscope with 4K resolution --- giving clear images, increasing safety in surgery
  • Microscope
• There is no reuse of certain surgical equipment.  Meanwhile, any tools and medical supplies to be reused are subject to stringent cleaning measures to ensure safety and to reduce infection rate.
• A number of surgery packages are available to suit individual needs.

 

Bumrungrad Spine Institute was selected by Professor Sebastien Ruetten, a prominent figure in developing endoscopic spinal surgery, to collaborate with St. Anna-Herne Hospital of Germany in establishing Endoscopic Surgery Training Center in Asia, the second facility of its kind after Germany.

Bumrungrad Spine Institute, in cooperation with Professor Sebastien Ruetten, has been organizing a training workshop on endoscopic spinal surgery consecutively every year for more than 15 years, and so far, has trained over 5,000 spine surgeons from various countries.




 

Patients from all over the world, both Thai and foreign, received treatment from the Bumrungrad Spine Institute.

• Pain improvement and reoperation rate after full‑endoscopic decompression for lateral recess stenosis: a 10‑year follow‑up. Kesornsak W., Kuansongtham V., Khin Myat Myat Lwin, Pongpirul K. (2023, May).
• Clinical results of combined interlaminar and transforaminal endoscopic discectomy for central large disc herniation. Kuansongtham V., Khin Myat Myat Lwin, Wasinpongwanich K. (2021, November).
• Posterior epidural sequestrated disc presenting with contralateral radiculopathy: a very rare case. Kesornsak W., Wasinpongwanich K., Kuansongtham V. (2021, November).
• Full-Endoscopic Interlaminar Lumbar Discectomy: Retrospective Review of Clinical Results and Complications in 545 International Patients.  Wasinpongwanich K., Pongpirul K., Khin Myat Myat Lwin*, Kesornsak W., Kuansongtham V., Ruetten S. (2019, July)
• A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy Compared with Circumferential Lumbar Fusion. Stamuli E., Kesornsak W., Grevitt M., Posnett J., Claxton K. (2017, September)
• Comparison between minimally invasive and open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion.  Saetia K., Phankhongsab A., Kuansongtham V., (2013, January).
• Full Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy via Interlaminar Approach: 2-year Results in Ramathibodi Hospital. Chumnanvej S., Kesornsak W., Sarnvivad P., Kuansongthum V.(2012, February).
• Result of Full Endoscopic Uniportal Lumbar Discectomy: Preliminary Report. Kuansongtum V , Kesornsak W, Chaiyosboorana V, Rukskul P, Chumnanvej S, Ruetten S. (2009, June).
• Factors Predicting Failure of Conservative Treatment in Lumbar-Disc Herniation. Sutheerayongprasert C., Kuansongtham V., Anuraklekha S., Hiranyasthiti N., Neti S. (2012).
• Comparison between minimally invasive and open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion.Saetia K., Phankhongsab A., Kuansongthum V.  (2013, January).