ABOUT OUR SPINE DOCTOR
Spine / Back Pain Expert
Lysander Jim, M.D.
Lysander Jim, M.D. is a spine author, educator, and physician who has treated complex spine conditions for over a decade.
His professional background includes work in the fields of spine rehabilitation, pain medicine, occupational medicine, and spine biomechanics as a McGill Method certified practitioner.
The foundation of his care is precision diagnosis through clinical assessment supplemented with spinal imaging and other diagnostic testing. His practice focuses on guiding patients through different phases of spine care including:
- initial injury and flare management
- long-term recovery
- surgical avoidance through conservative care
- surgical decision making
- pre-surgical optimization
- post-surgical management
Dr. Jim commonly treats patients with common treats:
- disc injury
- sciatica
- facet joint pain
- spinal stenosis
- and spondylolisthesis
His practice specializes in medically unexplained cases of back pain including chronic inflammation, Lyme disease, transitional vertebrae, Tarlov cysts, arachnoiditis, post-surgical complications, and tethered cord syndrome.
His book Specific Spine and Youtube channel have educated thousands of back pain sufferers and clinicians around the world.