ArthurLJenkinsIIIMDFACS FAANS

Summary

• Dr. Arthur L. Jenkins, III, MD is a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon and an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Orthopedic Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. His post-residency training includes a complex spinal surgery fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. To ensure every aspect of his patients’ care is optimized, Dr. Jenkins collaborates with a variety of diverse specialists, including orthopedic surgeons, pain management specialists, rehabilitation medicine experts, rheumatologists, neuro-anesthesiologists, and where appropriate, any of the other 40 unparalleled specialty services offered in the Mount Sinai Health System. Dr. Jenkins utilizes innovative approaches to surgical treatment for the entire spectrum of spinal disorders and peripheral nerve diseases.
  In spine surgery, he treats the following:
  
  - Minimally-invasive spine surgery: microscopic and endoscopic surgery of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine
  - Craniovertebral junction disorders: chiari malformation, occipital-cervical instability
  - Cervical spine disorders: neck/arm pain, herniated disc, spinal stenosis, spondylosis
  - Thoracic spine disorders: herniated discs, tumors, paraspinal biopsies
  - Lumbosacral spine disorders: low back/leg pain, herniated discs, spinal stenosis
  - Spinal trauma and spinal cord injury
  - Spinal tumors: intramedullary, intradural, extradural, paraspinal
  - Spinal deformity: adult scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, spinal instability, post-op kyphosis repair
  - Congenital spine disease: diastematomyelia, dermal sinus, myelomeningocele
  - Revision spinal surgery
  - Spinal infection
  - Spinal instability
  - Vertebral compression fractures
  Treatments include:
  
  - Minimally-invasive spine surgery: microscopic and endoscopic surgery of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine
  - Artificial cervical disks, artificial lumbar discs and dynamic spinal implants
  - Spinal fusion and reconstruction