Neurosurgery / Spinal Surgery

Back pain can significantly impact a person's daily life, whether it is acute or chronic. Our experienced neurosurgery and spinal surgery specialists provide diagnostics, counselling, and treatment all in one place to determine the most suitable approach for your back pain.

You are in excellent hands with us

Our aim is to help you regain your quality of life. Together, we will develop a treatment plan that is customised to your individual needs. Whenever possible, we prioritise conservative therapies to avoid surgical procedures. If surgery is necessary, we will perform it in collaboration with Winterthur Cantonal Hospital. We use modern, minimally invasive microsurgical procedures to minimise the stress for you.

Range of services

  • Assessments, counselling, treatment planning, cost approvals
  • Conservative and surgical treatment
  • Expert opinions, second opinions, insurance law aspects

Range of treatments

Degenerative spinal diseases

  • Slipped disc (herniated disc)
  • Narrowing of the spinal canal (spinal canal stenosis)
  • Slipped vertebrae (spondylolisthesis)
  • Wear and tear of the vertebral arch joints (spondylarthrosis)

Simple to complex injuries to the spine (spinal trauma)

  • Spinal instabilities (acute, chronic, subsequent instability)

Infections of the central nervous system

  • Infection of the spine (purulent spondylitis / spondylodiscitis)
  • Rheumatoid arthritis (chronic polyarthritis)
  • Ankylosing spondylitis (ankylosing spondylitis, ankylosing spondylitis)

Tumours of the central nervous system

  • Benign primary tumours of the spine
    (e.g. haemangiomas, osteoid osteomas, osteoblastomas, aneurysmal bone cysts, fibrous histiocytomas, eosinophilic granulomas)
  • Malignant primary tumours of the spine
    (e.g. osteosarcoma, Ewing’s sarcoma or chondrosarcoma)
  • secondary tumours of the spine – metastases
    (resulting from the spread of tumour cells, e.g., in advanced prostate, lung, or breast cancer)

Your Medical Specialist

Cav. Dr. med. (I)
Alessandro Rustia
Board certified surgeon