Recent advances in technique and equipment, combined with the severity of the Opioid Crisis, have encouraged the development of a new strategy that focuses on curing pain. The pressure from government and insurance companies to control narcotic use is changing the emphasis of a “pain practice” from managing pain to curing it when possible. The current concept of pain management may not even be a viable strategy for the future.
Many painful spine conditions can be cured with endoscopic spine surgery. These conditions include lumbar, thoracic, cervical facet syndrome, and annular tears. In the past, such issues have been managed temporarily by using ablation, injections, or medications. However, endoscopic spine surgery can permanently eliminate or considerably reduce the pain from these conditions.
Dr. Tony Mork is providing a tremendous opportunity to pain management doctors by offering a series of courses through the Endoscopic Spine Academy. These courses are designed to establish a pathway for the pain management doctor to follow to become an endoscopic specialist. The courses show how to treat problems that most fellowship-trained spine surgeons are not interested in. This will allow doctors to introduce a unique skill set – endoscopic spine surgery – to the community.
Over the years, Dr. Mork has taught many courses for various companies. Although the instructional courses were good, they did not show a clear pathway of progression from easy to more difficult, nor did they demonstrate the how-to element needed to implement the techniques and procedures into a pain practice. If doctors did not perform a procedure within a few weeks of attending a course, they probably would not be able to perform the procedure at all, since there was no easy way to review the procedure in detail.
As an endoscopic spine surgeon, Dr. Mork has personally performed more than 8,000 endoscopic spinal surgeries. He has also designed some of the specialized tools used in laser spine surgery and is constantly pursuing the improvement of spinal care. Dr. Mork has also been instrumental in developing some of the current endoscopic spinal surgery techniques. He has written or co-authored eleven peer-reviewed articles on the topic of modern endoscopic spine surgery techniques. Dr. Mork co-founded Microspine and is a national instructor for Richard Wolf, the largest producer of endoscopic spine equipment in the world. While others copy his techniques, he is always moving forward. Dr. Mork represents the future of endoscopic laser spine surgery, and he strives to make endoscopic spine surgery training available to pain management doctors with his training courses.
Dr. Tony Mork operates a concierge medical practice and performs minimally invasive endoscopic laser spine surgery for patients in Florida and California. In his pursuit to help patients be pain-free, Dr. Mork emphasizes education, diagnosis, communication, first-class care, and cutting edge technology.
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For more information about endoscopic surgery, visit the website at https://drtonymork.com. The office can be contacted by phone at 1 (949) 640-6675.
