What Dr. Wey treats
Find your problem below. Each guide explains it in plain language and can be printed or read in five languages.
Most common
- Neck painCervicalgiaOngoing pain or stiffness in the neck.
- Pinched nerve in the neckCervical radiculopathyPain, numbness, or tingling down the arm.
- SciaticaLumbar radiculopathyPain that travels from the back down the leg.
- Spinal stenosisLumbar spinal stenosisLeg pain or tiredness when standing or walking.
- Slipped vertebraDegenerative spondylolisthesisOne bone has shifted forward on the one below.
- Adult scoliosisDegenerative scoliosisA curve in the spine that causes pain or leaning.
- Spinal cord compressionCervical myelopathyHand numbness, clumsiness, or balance changes.
- Compression fractureOsteoporotic fractureBack pain from a bone weakened by osteoporosis.
Children, teens, and young adults
Spinal curves and growth-related spine problems, from early childhood through the young adult years.
Scoliosis
A sideways curve of the spine, from early childhood through the teen years.
Kyphosis and complex deformities
Rounded backs and severe or unusual curves.
Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis
Stress fractures and slipped bones in the low back, common in young athletes.
Neck deformities in children
Neck curves or instability present from birth or during growth.
All neck and back problems
Neck
- Cervicalgia (Neck Pain)
- Cervical Radiculopathy
- Spondylotic Cervical Myelopathy
- Cervical Myeloradiculopathy
- Cervical Spondylolisthesis
- Cervical Kyphosis
- Ossified Posterior Longitudinal Ligament (OPLL)
- Occipital Headaches
- Odontoid Fracture
- C1–C2 Atlantoaxial Instability
- Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
- Congenital Cervical Stenosis
Mid back and posture
Low back and legs
- Lumbar Radiculopathy
- Which Nerve Is Pinched? L2 to S1 Radiculopathy
- Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
- Lumbar Foraminal Stenosis
- Lumbar Lateral Recess Stenosis
- Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
- Lumbar Isthmic Spondylolisthesis
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Discogenic Back Pain and Annular Tears
- Facet Joint Pain (Facetogenic Back Pain)
- Sacroiliac (SI) Joint Dysfunction
- Sacral Insufficiency Fracture
Other spine conditions
- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (Post-Laminectomy Syndrome)
- Pseudarthrosis (Nonunion of a Fusion)
- Arachnoiditis
- Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leak
- Spinal Osteomyelitis, Discitis, and Osteodiscitis
- Metastatic Disease to the Spine
- Charcot Spine (Neuropathic Spinal Arthropathy)
- Osteoid Osteoma of the Spine
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS)
- Marfan Syndrome
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General children's orthopaedics