Back Doctor

Robert Watkins, IV, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon to professional athletes, discusses different types of spinal injections: epidurals, nerve root blocks, facet joints, discs, and rhizotomy.

Robert G. Watkins, IV, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon to professional athletes, discusses post-operative experience and management after cervical artificial disc replacement.

Robert G. Watkins, IV, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon to professional athletes, discusses post-operative experience and management after cervical foraminotomy discectomy (microscopic decompression) surgery.

Robert G. Watkins, IV, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon to professional athletes, discusses post-operative experience and management after lumbar fusion surgery.

Robert Watkins, IV, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon to professional athletes describes post-operative recovery and return to activities and sports after neck fusion (Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion, ACDF).

Robert Watkins, IV, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon to professional athletes describes post-operative recovery and return to activities and sports after lumbar microscopic discectomy.

Robert Watkins, IV, MD, spine surgeon to professional athletes and creator of the Back Doctor App, discusses the risks, benefits, and technique of lateral lumbar interbody fusion.

Robert Watkins, IV, MD, spine surgeon to professional athletes and creator of the Back Doctor App, discusses new onset back pain: what is the cause and how to get rid of it.

Dr Robert Watkins, orthopedic spine surgeon to professional athletes, discusses how to decrease back and neck pain in order to avoid spine surgery.

Dr. Robert Watkins, spine surgeon to professional athletes and creator of the Back Doctor App, discusses everything entailed in a lumbar discectomy. How to avoid it, when to do it, why it works, what are the complications, and what is the recovery.

Robert Watkins, MD, spine surgeon to professional athletes, reveals the fallacies and marketing gimmicks of "Laser spine surgery", while presenting a safer alternative.

Robert Watkins, MD, spine surgeon to professional athletes, discusses how athletes avoid having surgery and continue to play their sport with a comprehensive exercise program.

Robert Watkins, MD, spine surgeon to professional athletes, discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly about low back fusions, specifically anterior lumbar interbody fusion as done on Tiger Woods.

Robert Watkins, M.D., spine surgeon to professional athletes and creator of Back Doctor App, questions whether spine surgery actually works, when it does, and how to avoid it.