A Multidisciplinary Approach to Back Pain

In this episode, Dr Matthew Philips, Chief of Brain & Spine at Southcoast Health will discuss:

     What is normal and abmormal  back pain, causes for back pain, diagnostic tests available, multidisciplinary approach to back pain including treatment plans, surgical options and risks and benefits of surgery, pre-surgical steps to help  improve outcomes, post surgey recovery time and treatment. Dr. Philips will also discuss minimially invasive techniques and imaging technologies.

BIO:

Dr. Matthew Philips is a neurological surgeon in practice with Southcoast Neurosurgery. He is the  Chief of Brain & Spine at Southcoast Health and on the medical staff at St. Lukes Hospital in New Bedford, Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.

A native of New Bedford, Dr. Philips is a graduate of Yale University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania and subspecialty fellowship training in complex and reconstructive spinal surgery.

He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the Joint Sections of Trauma and Critical Care and Spinal and Peripheral Nerves and North American Spine Society.

In addition to spinal reconstruction, Dr. Philips has a special interest in spine tumors, degenerative disease of the spine, brain tumors, traumatic brain injury and surgical treatment of epilepsy.

Dr. Philips is board certified in neurological surgery.

https://www.southcoast.org/doctors/matthew-philips-md/