Dr. med. Michel Schneider

Michel Schneider, MD, specialist in neurosurgery, founded and heads the Rückenpraxis Seefeld Zurich. Dr. Schneider became fascinated by spinal surgery early on during his further training as a specialist in neurosurgery FMH. He specialised in complex cervical spine surgery during a fellowship at the University of Toronto, Canada with Prof. Dr. M. Fehlings and at Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich with Prof. Dr. M. Farshad in orthopaedic spine surgery. Under Prof. M. Fehlings, Dr Schneider wrote research papers in the field of non-traumatic spinal cord injuries (cervical myelopathy) and received a «Best Paper» award out of over 1400 research papers from the North American Spine Society NASS in 2019.
As a speciality, M. Schneider, MD, is one of the few spine surgeons in Switzerland to offer endoscopic surgery on the spine, which enables very gentle operations with a skin incision of just a few millimetres.

• Ärztegesellschaft des Kantons Zürich, AGZ 
• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie, SGNC
• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Spinale Chirurgie, SGS
• Global Academic Community In Spine Care, AO Spine
• North American Spine Society, NASS 
• Spine Society of Europe, EUROSPINE

• Endoscopic spinal interventions for disc herniations/ herniated discs
• Complex cervical spine procedures from ventral/anterior and dorsal/ posterior for disc hernias, spinal canal stenosis, fractures
• Complex revision surgery of the spine after previous operations
• Special spinal surgery of the ventral, lumbar and thoracic spine
• Minimally invasive and open stabilisation techniques/spondylodeses of the entire cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine for degenerative diseases and trauma
• Microsurgical minimally invasive decompressions for disc hernias and spinal canal stenoses of the entire spine
• Minimally invasive and stabilising interventions for osteoporotic or traumatic vertebral fractures (vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty and stabilisation)
• Infections and metastases of the spine
• Second opinions