 Hi, my name is Thomas Kishan and I am a spine surgeon at Manipal Hospital's Bangalore. The hospital is a quaternary care facility for all conditions relating to the spine and we are able to offer you surgical and non-surgical options for your neck and back problems. As far as non-surgical options go, we do tarot assessment, we have excellent imaging facilities for MRI, CT scans and X-rays. We also have physiotherapy and manual therapy treatments for those who require it. We have an option of giving spinal injections for people who require it and if none of these work then surgery is an option. As far as surgery goes we are equipped to treat all conditions of the spine right from the neck to the lower back. We also do some complex deformity surgeries especially for children with scoliosis and kyphosis. These children occasionally do require surgery and we are equipped and have expertise in treating these children with scoliosis and kyphosis and we have excellent results with them. We also specialize in treating patients with spinal tumors who are referred to us by oncology colleagues. So some patients with spinal tumors may require chemotherapy, some may require radiation and some occasionally require surgery and we have the expertise and the equipments to 3 patients with spinal tumors. Whenever anybody thinks of spine surgery the first thing that comes to their mind is fear. I think in the 21st century with the equipment and expertise that we have I don't think spinal surgery is a scary option anymore. Most of our patients are out of bed and walking the next day and go home in a couple of days time. So the old stories of patients being bedridden after spinal surgery is a rare occasion now with the equipment and the expertise that we currently have.