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. 
 

Vision

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

 

Mission

• 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

Experience and expertise
 

• 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.

 

Structure of the Back

The back has three primary parts, which are: 
 

1. Spine

The spine is one of the most important body parts as it is the foundation of the body to support our body’s weight. The spine comprises of multiple bones, called vertebrae, stacked together from the neck (cervical area) to the waist (lumbar area). Doctors often refer to vertebrae by sequential numbering of the area the vertebrae is located in:

• The cervical spine section consists of 7 vertebral bones (known as C1-C7).
• The thoracic spine section consists of 12 vertebral bones (known as T1-T12).
• The lumbar spine section consists of 5 vertebral bones (known as L1-L5). This area is the most location for back pain as it supports the upper body weight.
• The sacral spine section consists of 5 vertebral bones (known as S1-S5) which are fused together to form the coccyx bone (also known as tailbone).

 

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Picture 2

Picture 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_cord
Picture 2 http://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/กระดูกสันหลัง
 

2. Back muscles

The muscles of the back are attached to the spine by connecting tendons and ligaments.
 

3. Spinal nerves

In the cavity of the spine, there are 31 pairs of spinal nerves to carry sensations from different parts of the body to the brain, and to carry instructions from the brain to the organs and parts of the body. 

 

Hear the stories of patients who were treated at the Institute.

• Full Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy via Interlaminar Approach: 2-year Results in Ramathibodi Hospital. Chumnanvej S, Kesornsak W, Sarnvivad P, Paiboonsirijit S, Kuansongthum V.(2012, February).
• Result of Full Endoscopic Uniportal Lumbar Discectomy: Preliminary Report. Kuansongtum V , Paiboonsirijit S, Kesornsak W, Chaiyosboorana V, Rukskul P, Chumnanvej S, Ruetten S. (2009, June).
• Factors Predicting Failure of Conservative Treatment in Lumbar-Disc Herniation.Sutheerayongprasert C., Paiboonsirijit S., 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., Paiboonsirijit S (2013, January).