What's the difference between the two, and what should patients know before they do the consult?

Well, both are well-trained in spine surgery.

Neurosurgery training, as far as residency, is a little longer, seven years, versus ortho, which is five.

Neurosurgery residents spend basically every year doing some sort of spine surgery throughout their residency.

Mm-hmm.

There are two years of research in neurosurgery.

Most people who are going to go into spine surgery just do more spine surgery, right? Ortho, they do the full gamut of orthopedic surgery.

So what does success look like? So what does success look like for someone who just has pain versus someone who definitely has symptoms of myelopathy and maybe has had those for a while and just finally came to