Dr. Ehsan Saadat is a Board-certified, Harvard and Emory-trained orthopaedic spine surgeon in Los Angeles. He is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His areas of interest include disk replacement and motion-preserving surgery, minimally-invasive microscopic decompression of the cervical and lumbar spine, minimally invasive spinal fusions (XLIF and ALIF), and complex revision spine surgery.
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Dr. Saadat is a prolific and active researcher and an accomplished author, with numerous research publications covering a wide range of topics in orthopaedics and spine surgery. Dr. Saadat has authored multiple book chapters, and recently heavily contributed to the newest authoritative textbook of techniques in spine surgery.
Dr. Saadat sees patients in his Los Angeles and Orange County offices. Dr. Saadat treats patients not only from southern California, but also from across the United States and around the world.
Disc replacement may help relieve pain from a damaged disc while preserving movement in your spine. That possibility can be encouraging when other treatments have not helped, but how do you know whether you qualify? Determining who is a candidate for artificial disc replacement requires looking at both the damaged disc and the surrounding spine. Your bone strength, joint...
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You may feel ready for spine surgery and still hesitate over who should perform it. A referral gives you a name, but it may not tell you how often that doctor performs your operation or what their patients experience afterward. At Saadat Spine, Dr. Ehsan Saadat is a board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon whose practice includes disc replacement, minimally invasive...
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Disc replacement offers an appealing option: It treats a painful disc while preserving movement between the surrounding bones. That matters when you want to return to activities that back pain has taken away. But is disc replacement better than fusion? Comparing disc replacement vs fusion means understanding why a surgeon might recommend stopping movement instead. At Saadat Spine, we...
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