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Department Spine Surgery

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The specialist team is made up of experts in orthopaedics and neurosurgery. Patients benefit from our many years of experience, continuing professional development and research activities. As one of four certified AO Spine Centres in Switzerland, we perform around 1,400 spinal operations and carry out more than 13,000 consultations each year.

Our highly trained doctors provide patients with medical advice for acute and chronic back pain and conditions such as disc herniation, spinal tumours and scoliosis, as well as spinal injuries and fractures.

Schulthess Klinik

Schulthess Klinik
Lengghalde 2
8008 Zürich
Schweiz

Mo–Th 8:00–17:00
Fr 8:00–16:00
Sa–Su Closed

Treatments

  • Implantation of a neurostimulator for neuropathic pain
  • Scoliosis – curvature of the spine
  • Osteoporosis – spinal fractures
  • Cervical spondylotic myelopathy
  • Herniated disc in the lumbar spine
  • Herniated disc in the cervical spine
  • Narrowing of the spinal canal in the lumbar spine
  • Lumbar canal stenosis
  • Surgery of the degenerative cervical spine
  • Spinal tumours – tumours of the spine
  • Back pain

Our Spine Surgery specialists

Department topics

Read more about 20 Years of COMI: Because treatment success is more than just an X-ray
Dr. med. Manuel Jung

20 Years of COMI: Because treatment success is more than just an X-ray

How can we determine whether spinal surgery has truly been successful? Not just from the perspective of the treatment team, but from the patients’ perspective? A patient questionnaire was developed at the Schulthess Klinik precisely for this purpose. For two decades, the so-called COMI-back has been helping to reveal how patients are really faring after surgery on the lumbar spine.

Read more about 20 Years of COMI: Because treatment success is more than just an X-ray

Certified training facility

SIWF Certified Postgraduate Training Centre

AO Spine Certificate