Our goal is to provide you with a comprehensive, highly informative and useful resource for understanding, preventing, and seeking appropriate treatment for back and neck pain and related conditions. This site has been developed by a multi-specialty group of medical professionals. It will be continually enhanced with new features, and we will base its direction and future developments primarily on your feedback (please see contact us) to send in your suggestions. While there are many e-health sites, Spine-health.com is the only spine medicine portal that supports the education of patients through a combination of:100% original, peer-reviewed content. Developed by a multi-specialty group of medical professionals, the content is original, written specifically for Spine-health.com users and reviewed by at least one member of the Medical Advisory Board before being added to the site. The peer-reviewed process helps ensure that the articles are accurate, complete, balanced and free from commercial influence. Comprehensive information and services. Provides in-depth coverage of the most common issues that patients ask about and is frequently updated with new and useful information, clear animations of spine anatomy, conditions and procedures, a directory of board certified/board eligible spine specialists, clinical trial information and more. Independence. Educates patients in a straightforward, informative manner without bias. Unlike other spine portals, Spine-health.com is not owned or directed by companies that sell spine products or medication. None of the articles are written or influenced by companies trying to sell something. All advertisements and sponsorships are clearly identified and labeled. Spine-health.com was started in August 1999 by Peter F. Ullrich, Jr., MD and Stephanie Ullrich Burke, with a shared goal of providing intelligent, unbiased and highly relevant medical information and education for adults with back and neck pain. The company is led by Peter Ullrich, Jr., MD, Medical Director, who provides medical leadership and Stephanie Ullrich Burke, President, who provides business leadership. This brother-sister team has been joined by an experienced support team of web design professionals, operations/administrative staff, and—most importantly—leaders in spine medicine who comprise our Medical Advisory Board and Contributing Authors. Our business model is simple: we believe that high quality and reliable content and services will attract users seeking information about back pain, and that a high number of users will, in turn, attract sponsorships from corporations, advertisements, and subscriptions from spine specialists. Importantly, we believe that providing the highest quality patient education on the Internet helps spine specialists serve their patients; we believe that a well-educated patient will heal faster and have fewer recurrences of back pain, and we believe that all of this can be achieved without commercial bias. The medical content on this site has been reviewed by health professionals. Our approach requires the authors to base their writing on verifiable facts and to clearly note when stating an opinion or topic that is controversial. (See also Editorial Process). At least one member of our Medical Advisory Board reviews every article prior to publication on the site, and many areas of the site as reviewed by 5 or 6 Medical Advisors. Spine-health.com is built around the foundation of providing clear, non-commercial patient education. We dont charge patients to use this site. Doctors support this site by subscribing (for an annual fee) to provide patient education to their patients and for a web page in our directory; commercial companies advertise and/or list their clinical trials on our site for a fee; and we have teamed up with Google.com to participate in Googles AdSense program (whereby Googles advertisers can advertise on some pages of our site).

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