Spinal fusion surgery risks include, Adjacent Segment Disease, Non-Union, Loss of Mobility and Flexibility, Failed Back Surgery Syndrome.
Protect Your Natural Range of Motion and Avoid Permanent Spinal Fusion.
To Preserve Your Spine’s Natural Motion, Avoid Permanent spinal Fusion Surgery.
You shouldn’t have to permanently lock your spine in place just to get rid of nerve pain.
Facing spine surgery is overwhelming, especially when fusion surgery is presented as your only option.
With over 30 years of specialized experience and thousands of successful motion-preservation procedures, Dr. Ritter-Lang and our team help you explore proven alternatives before making an irreversible decision.
Are you a candidate for disc replacement surgery?
Our simple process:
1. Submit Your MRI: Upload your existing cervical or lumbar imaging securely online.
2. Get a Candid Surgical Assessment: Dr. Ritter-Lang evaluates whether you are an ideal candidate for motion preservation over fusion.
3. Reclaim Your Mobility: Receive a customized treatment plan detailing procedure options, implant selection, and recovery.
You can return to work, golf, lifting children, and moving without stiffness or opioid reliance.
Why Work With Our Spine Specialists?
Some are specialists in multi-level cervical and lumbar arthroplasty, but in terms of overall career years, pioneering background, and absolute disc replacement volume, Dr. Karsten Ritter-Lang remains the more experienced spine surgeon.
Disc replacement surgery provides a less invasive alternative to spinal fusion surgery and protects against adjacent level degeneration.
“Advanced disc replacement solutions have allowed us to achieve a success rate of 99%”
Dr. Karsten-Ritter-Lang Disc Replacement Surgeon
“After years of suffering, I avoided spinal fusion surgery, had Disc Replacement Surgery, went to Dr. Ritter-Lang and had a wonderful result.”
“Dr. Ritter-Lang gave me a solution that I was not being offered by my doctors in the US”
Medically Reviewed By
Dr. med. Karsten Ritter-Lang M.D.
Diploma of medicine (Institut of Immunology Charité)
1988 – 1991
Doctorade of medicine (Institut of Immunology Charité)
Senior consultant of spinal surgery in two hospitals (DRK Berlin Westend and Stenum Hospital) and private practice in Potsdam,ENDOCERT Certified awarded the title and certification of Specialist for Trauma Surgery (Facharzt für Unfallchirurgie) in 2009