NeuroSpine Institute—Perth, Australia

Address:
NeuroSpine Institute
Suite 76/77, 3 Barry Marshall Parade,
Murdoch WA 6150
Perth
Australia 

Website

Paul Taylor Spine Center Director: Paul Taylor

Team members:
Dr Michael Kern
Dr Andrew Miles
Dr Greg Cunningham

Center description

Neurospine Institute runs a registered charity organisation - Neurospine Foundation - which holds the license to operate the British Spine Registry software for our patients. We prospectively enroll all of our surgical cases into this software and outcomes are scored including patient rated outcome measure methods. We employ a part time PhD scientist for database management and statistical analysis. We are about to reach two years from inauguration and have a pipeline of research projects in place on the background of this resource. Dr Greg Cunningham is our Research Director who has a strong publication background and links into the local academic fraternity including the tertiary public hospital resources.

Most frequent pathologies

Tumor; Deformity; Degeneration

 

Number of cases 

Cases per year: 
Number of instrumented cases per year: 

Total estimated number of procedures per month:

  • Cervical deformity 
  • Cervical trauma 
  • Cervical tumor 
  • Rheumatoid cervical spine 
  • Chronic pain 
  • Degenerative cervical spine 
  • Degenerative lumbar spine 
  • Dysraphic conditions 
  • Special procedures: Dynamic lumbar stabilisation 
  • Thoracic & lumbar trauma 
  • Thoracic, lumbar and sacral tumor 
  • Thoracolumbar deformity 

Other techniques performed per month:

  • Percutaneous instrumentation, MISS, anterior lumbar spine surgery 

1763
500-600

 

3  
2
1
1 
50
15
25  
- 
2
1 
1
4

 

10

 
 

Types of Fellowships

  • National fellowship
  • Regional and international fellowship
  • Short-term fellowships (2 weeks to 6 months)
  • Long-term fellowships (6 to 12 months)
  • Fellow can scrub-in as surgeon
  • Fellow can scrub-in as assistant

Average number of surgeries per week in the OR for the fellow: 15-20