The Spinal Center at Nanoori Hospital is equipped with cutting-edge medical equipment to provide its patients with accurate diagnosis and treatment. The Spinal Center conducts surgery on more than 2,300 patients every year. Medical teams of the Spinal Center have the best level of expertise in a wide range of spinal diseases, such as disc diseases, stenosis, fractures, deformation and spine instability, and implements precise surgical techniques. Along with the high level of treatment by the medical teams, their reputation as professionals in the field of spinal diseases and their passion for study and innovations in spinal treatment make the center the best spinal center in Korea.
The Joint Center at Nanoori Hospital has made a significant contribution to the treatment and rehabilitation of joint diseases, caused by arthritis or other sicknesses. Doctors in the center have extensive experience in the field of minimal invasive surgery, such as surgery using arthroscopy, and conduct more than 1,000 surgical operations every year. The basic philosophy of minimal invasive surgery is to treat the disease, minimizing complications, by conducting the minimum amount of surgery. In addition, the Joint Center atNanoori Hospital has provided the best treatment to patients who undergo joint replacement surgery by linking all the procedures before the surgery and carefully supervising post-surgery rehabilitation.
The Center for Non-surgical Procedures for Spinal Diseases provides a variety of the latest non-surgical procedures, such as percutaneous epidural neuroplasty for relieving pain in the cervical spine and the lumbar spine, disc nucleoplasty, intra-muscular stimulation, and various procedures for nerve blocks. There are many experts from rehabilitation medicine, oriental medicine, physical therapy and exercise therapy, along with doctors for controlling pain in the Center for Non-surgical Procedures for Spinal Diseases of Nanoori Hospital. The center provides its patients with treatment that works faster and lasts longer than any single therapy, such as drug therapy, physical therapy and remedial treatment, through its comprehensive approach.
The number of patients with spine and joint diseases has recently increased because of people’s lack of physical activities and bad living habits. For patients who do not need surgery, they can rapidly relieve the pain by enhancing their muscles through scientific and systematic exercises. For patients who require surgery, they can get rid of the pain, recover the functions of the spine and joints, and reduce the chance for the same disease to reoccur through a post-surgery rehabilitation program. Dozens of doctors and experts in rehabilitation at the Center for Exercise Treatment at Nanoori Hospital have implemented clinical trials and studies for more than 10 years to make a society where no one will suffer from pain as a result of spine and joint diseases or from a recurrence of the diseases.
The Center for Physical Therapy is equipped with a systematic facility suitable for the rehabilitation of patients with spine and joint diseases, performing various professional treatments with state-of-the-art equipment, such as the KNX-7000 for zero-gravity decompression therapy, equipment for enhancing spinal muscle strength, and equipment for extracorporeal shock wave therapy. Additionally, the center provides thermotherapy, electrotherapy, joint exercises, and muscle exercises to its patients. In particular,Nanoori Hospital boasts the ESMA, which is its differentiated system for treatment without injection or medication. The center also maximizes the effect of the treatment by connecting extracorporeal shock wave therapy and spinal manipulation.
Nanoori Hospital has established a more precise medical system with its cutting-edge equipment, such as a linear accelerator PET-CT for the entire PACS, MRI 3.0T for MRA, microscopes and arthroscopes.
