Dr. Murali Mohan S provides spine surgery care in Bengaluru for cervical, lumbar, complex spine, and spinal deformity conditions. The focus is on careful evaluation, clear explanation, appropriate treatment planning, and recovery-oriented follow-up.
Spine surgery deals with conditions affecting the neck, back, spinal cord, nerves, and supporting structures of the spine. Not every spine problem needs surgery. Many patients improve with medicines, physiotherapy, posture correction, injections, or rehabilitation. Surgery is considered when symptoms are severe, progressive, disabling, or when there is pressure on the spinal cord or nerves that needs to be relieved.
What spine surgery covers
Spine problems can present with pain or affect movement, walking, hand function, balance, bladder or bowel control, and overall quality of life. A spine consultation usually includes understanding the symptoms, examining nerve function, reviewing MRI, CT, or X-ray findings where available, and deciding whether the condition can be managed without surgery or needs surgical treatment.
Common spine conditions include disc prolapse, spinal canal narrowing, nerve compression, cervical myelopathy, lumbar canal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, spinal instability, fractures, infections, tumours, deformities, and age-related degenerative changes.
Cervical spine conditions
The cervical spine is the neck portion of the spine. Problems in this region may cause neck pain, arm pain, numbness, weakness, hand clumsiness, imbalance, or difficulty walking.
Cervical disc prolapse, cervical spondylosis, spinal cord compression, and cervical myelopathy are commonly evaluated conditions. Surgery may be considered when there is significant spinal cord or nerve compression, progressive weakness, walking difficulty, or symptoms that do not improve with appropriate non-surgical care.
The aim of treatment is to relieve compression where needed, protect nerve or spinal cord function, and help the patient return to daily activity safely.
Lumbar spine conditions
The lumbar spine is the lower back portion of the spine. Lumbar spine problems may cause lower back pain, leg pain, sciatica, numbness, weakness, difficulty walking, or pain that worsens on standing or walking.
Common lumbar conditions include disc herniation, lumbar canal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, degenerative disc disease, and nerve root compression. Many patients improve without surgery. Surgery is considered when pain is disabling, neurological weakness is present, walking is significantly affected, or conservative treatment has not helped.
Lumbar spine surgery may involve decompression, discectomy, fusion, or stabilisation depending on the condition.
Complex spine and spinal deformity
Complex spine conditions include spinal deformities such as scoliosis, kyphosis, and kyphoscoliosis, as well as spinal tumours, infections, fractures, craniovertebral junction disorders, revision spine surgery, and deformities associated with neurological or congenital conditions.
These cases often need detailed imaging, careful planning, neuromonitoring where appropriate, neuro-anaesthesia support, ICU care, physiotherapy, and long-term follow-up. In complex spine surgery, the goal is not only correction or stabilisation. It is also protection of the spinal cord and nerves, safe recovery, and meaningful improvement in function.
Recovery after spine surgery
Recovery after spine surgery depends on the condition, type of surgery, age, general health, nerve function before surgery, and rehabilitation plan.
Some patients walk soon after surgery. Others need gradual mobilisation, physiotherapy, pain control, wound care, posture guidance, and activity modification. Nerve recovery may take time, especially if compression was present for a long period before surgery.
Follow-up is important to monitor healing, review symptoms, guide activity, and support return to work, walking, travel, or daily life. The aim of spine care is not only to treat the scan finding, but to help the patient move, function, and live with less fear and better clarity.
This page is for awareness and education. It is not a substitute for medical advice. Patients with severe back or neck pain, weakness, numbness, walking difficulty, bladder or bowel symptoms, fever, trauma, or worsening neurological symptoms should seek in-person medical evaluation.
