Don’t let back pain and sciatica slow you down

Dr Dan Fagan FRCS is the leading consultant spinal surgeon with over 25 years’ experience of success, based in Yorkshire and the Northeast. He specialises in adult degenerative spinal conditions and minimally invasive spinal surgery. His work is focused at Circle Health Woodlands Hospital and Nuffield Tees Hospital. 

He created his clinic SpineArt, in 2010 to help people with spinal pain with empathy, consideration, and advanced techniques that successful treatment of these conditions demand. This is summed up by Mr. Fagan as “choosing the right operation, for the right condition, at the right time” for his patients.

“From the first point of contact with us, we see people quickly and no referral is necessary. Beverley, my Practice Manager will guide patients through the process, and we have access to MRI scans and tests done elsewhere in the country which can be easily transferred. This is all underpinned by a modern electronic booking and records system making your patient journey as seamless as possible”

Safety and excellence are the utmost in your experience with SpineArt. Dan Fagan is a respected clinical leader and has been an advisor for the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE). He is currently a Clinical Chairman at Circle Health Group which involves clinical service and governance development for spinal services at National level in his role as Chairman of the Spinal Steering Group.

Dan told us: “There are some common misconceptions in the treatment of back pain and sciatica, the commonest of which is that continued exercise is beneficial and can cure all cases. Often back pain and sciatica gets better naturally within 6 to 12 weeks, but beyond that time sport and even walking, can cause persistent or worsening symptoms. Weight bearing exercise and the heel strike when walking or running causes axial impact force which radiates up the leg to the spine and causes pain in an inflamed disc or nerve root. In my practise we use specific exercise and rehabilitation techniques to minimise spinal pain and inflammation, in conjunction with interventional treatment.”

“Golfers are prone to facet pain which can be treated in a number of ways at our clinic with advances in minimal access techniques such as RF ablation.” Dan is one of the few surgeons in the country who offer percutaneous disc surgery, and he can vapourise a disc protrusion (causing sciatica) with a plasma wand through two tiny portals.

“People who play golf or elite sport and have sciatica and back pain need an expert diagnosis. There are different reasons for the pain and a range of different treatments”.

“We have the equipment and the expertise, right here at SpineArt, to be able to offer patients the most cutting-edge treatment for conditions that can prevent them living their best lives,” explains Mr. Fagan.

At the clinic we can solve all manner of spinal conditions including neck pain due to spondylosis (or wear and tear), trapped nerves in the neck, lumbar spinal pain and sciatica due to a slipped disc, sacro-iliac pain, stress fractures (pars fractures) or impaction fractures in championship jockeys and professional sportsmen.

If you would like to arrange a consultation, please contact Beverley Johnston on 07539330360 or email secretary@spineart.org

For more information or to book online visit: www.spineart.org