Alexander Taghva, MD - Neurosurgery

Alexander Taghva, MD - Neurosurgery Dr. Taghva is a board-certified neurosurgeon specializing in minimally-invasive spine surgery, compl

Top Doctor Honor from Orange County Awarded to Dr. Alexander Taghva

Some news. My first book, UPRIGHT, comes out Fall 2027 through Penguin Life.It’s about the spine. Specifically, why most...
04/23/2026

Some news. My first book, UPRIGHT, comes out Fall 2027 through Penguin Life.
It’s about the spine. Specifically, why most of what we’re told about back pain gets the problem backwards. The spine isn’t a part that breaks and gets fixed. It’s a system that you maintain, or don’t, over decades. And even though surgery is sometimes the answer, most of the time it isn’t. My patients got tired of hearing me drone on, so I decided to write it down.
Enormous thanks to Jennifer Weis at for her confidence in me and guidance, and to Nina Rodriguez-Marty at for her vision and giving the book a home.
More to come. In the meantime, can anyone lend me their thesaurus?

04/12/2026

The Pitt showed an ER doctor doing a blind manual reduction of a cervical spine dislocation. I’ve done this procedure, but not like that. Here’s what actually happens and what the show got right and wrong.
The short version: we use Gardner-Wells tongs with sequential traction under X-ray. And if you flex the neck forward without imaging, you can convert a one-sided dislocation into a two-sided one. That’s a quadriplegic injury.
Full breakdown in the video.

03/26/2026

Here’s what recovery from cervical disc replacement actually looks like:
Day of surgery → home the same day
Day 1 → drain comes out
Weeks 1-2 → neck brace, no driving
Week 2 → brace off, gentle range of motion
Week 6 → physical therapy, most patients feel fully recovered
Fusion is similar but I find recovery takes closer to three months.
Full video on YouTube — link in bio.

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