Rick Sasso, MD

As a spine surgeon, my days are varied.  The majority of my day – is in surgery, specifically spine surgery.  Types of surgery are varied – cervical spine surgery, lumbar surgery, minimally invasive spine surgery, etc.  But my days are also devoted to seeing patients in the hospital following surgery, seeing patients in the office and I am involved in research.

Last summer, I was contacted by a reporter from my alma mater - Wabash College (Jim Amidon).  Jim was doing a story about me for an upcoming issue of the Wabash Magazine.  For this article, he needed pictures of me in surgery.  Well, long story short – he attended a spine surgery.  Once all the proper permissions were gathered, and paper work was signed – his day begun at 6:00 am one summer morning. 

To learn more about Jim’s day in surgery, read his blog.

The surgery he watched was a laminectomy for spinal stenosis.  Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the sine – and this narrowing puts pressure on the nerves resulting in pain.