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NBA basketball player Motejunas Donatas suffered from a herniated disc. He was successfully Michael Schubert operated on the spine.

Four-time boxing champion successfully by Dr. Schubert operated on the intervertebral disc.

Soccer player Ariel Harush plays for Club Hapoel Tel Aviv and is Israel's national goalkeeper.

Dr. Schubert - Asian Spine Journal - Percutaneous nucleotomy cervical spine

A bottle of fine red wine next to their pillow and the complete absence of pain from their cervical (neck), thoracic (rib cage) or lumbar (lower back) regions of his spine. This is the pleasant surprise each of Dr. Michael Schubert’s thousands of patients experience two hours after their surgery at his renowned Apex Spine Centre for Endoscopic Intervertebral Disc Surgery and Spinal Surgery –which Dr Schubert created next to Munich’s Olympic Park. During the last 11 years he has carried out more than 6,000 successful endoscopic spinal surgeries at the centre using an advanced technique and a new generation of operating instruments which he co-designed.

Many, especially the elderly, suffer from back pain due to spinal stenosis. Classically, these patients all too often receive pain therapy in the form of epidural infiltration therapy (PRIT = peripheral radical infiltration therapy, Rasz catheter, etc.).

A research group from Philadelphia, USA has now found that the group of patients who had received such syringe therapy before a stenosis operation performed overall had a significantly worse surgical result than the group of patients who was never infiltrated or received spray therapy.

Here you can find the detailed report Spine Journal Februar 2013

A stupid move and the competitive athlete Janusz M. from Munich could no longer move. The competitive athlete, extreme athlete and physiotherapist, who happened to have treated thousands of patients with back pain conservatively himself for years, could no longer help himself! All conservative therapy measures failed!
His biggest concern was that he could no longer carry out his passion on "kite surfing"!

Read more (with beautiful pictures)

Increasing leg weakness and back pain led the ambitious amateur athlete and enthusiastic triathlete from America, who currently lives in Hong Kong, to the apex spine center in Munich.

Read more (with picture)

More and more athletes trust the apex spine center in Munich. So also the ambitious competitive swimmer Poul from Denmark. In December 2012, after weeks of frustrating conservative therapy, Poul finally underwent an endoscopic disc surgery in the apex spine center in Munich with Dr. Schubert.

Less than 3 months later, Poul won the "Danish Swimming Senior Championships" over 200 meters back and 3rd place over 200 meters butterfly.

We are happy with him and wish the apex spine team all the best for the future.

Vertebrae can now be stiffened flexibly.
New therapy for back pain.

Monaco hope in the world ski circus Alexandra Coletti.

A drama! Alexandra Coletti, the hope of the Monegasque sports association and flag bearer at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver 2010, suffered a herniated disc during training in Austria with dramatic effects. Already during a training descent you felt a sting and beginning numbness in the leg. Then suddenly additional weakness in the leg. She was able to save herself without falling.

Dr. Michael Schubert from the apex spine spine center in Munich regularly performs difficult endoscopic intervertebral disc operations (herniated disc) in the Starnberg and Erding cooperation clinics, among others.

Dr. Michael Schubert as a guest on Peter Brinkmann's program "Berlin location".

The support system for the spine

“As a neurosurgeon, I recommend that all winter sports enthusiasts wear a helmet. And back protectors are helpful to avoid serious injuries to the thoracic and lumbar spine, ”says Dr. Armin Helm-
brecht. The neurosurgeon and spine specialist works in the Apex Spine Center in Munich.

Dr. Helmbrecht from the apex spine center uses new high-tech implant for the first time for patients with neck pain.

In the treatment of patients with back pain and / or a herniated disc, mini-operations that get by with the smallest skin incisions are becoming increasingly popular.

Dr. Michael Schubert on a lecture tour about the endoscopic surgical technique with the TESSYS technique at the University of Seoul / South Korea.