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January 31, 2023 6 mins

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Hi I'm Dr Tony Mork, author, speaker, inventor, board certified orthopedic surgeon, and endoscopic spinal surgeon, in particular, and for the past 13 years I've dedicated my practice entirely to the cure of chronic neck and back pain without the use of a fusion. Today I'd like to talk about facet syndrome or spinal arthritis. This is a situation that is really one of people that are a little older are going to get. It's not a young person's disease it's an older person's disease and it's progressive. It can account for 40% of low back pain complaints as we get into our 70s and eighties.  The guiding joints in the back of the spine they occur this is the back of the little the little bumps ones back where you get a massage these little facet Joints off to the side in the front we can see the discs here between the vertebrae and I think that it's easy to understand that with just the as we age we get shorter one of the reasons we get shorter is because the disc lose their water content as that happens the facet joints which were were born on Center get off center and as a result we have three things that can happen to the facet joints at that point in time but let's talk a little bit why the facet joints would hurt the facet joints are actually lined with synovial tissue which has got a fairly good and sensory nerve Supply in addition the joint is covered by a capsule and the capsule has a very sensitive nerve Supply as well these both act to restrain the motion of the back so in addition to the nerve Supply telling the brain where the back is in three dimensional space and the bone acts as a bumper so that it restricts our range of motion say when you're swinging a golf club that you just don't keep twisting…

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I'm Dr. Tony Mork and I run an Endoscopic Spine Surgery practice in Irvine, California and Naples, FL. I avoid a fusion when possible (which is most situations) and provide treatments that actually address the pain without taking an invasive approach.

Some of the conditions I treat:

  • Disc Herniation
  • Bulging Discs
  • Spinal Stenosis
  • Annular Tears
  • Sciatica
  • Facet Syndrome
  • Foraminal Stenosis
  • And more

Dr. Tony Mork, MD
2102 Business Center Dr #127, Irvine, CA 92612
(949) 640-6675
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