Dr. med. Michel Schneider
Specialist in neurosurgery, FMH; especially spinal surgery;
Interdisciplinary focus on spinal surgery SGNC/SO
- Spinal surgery
- Spinal tumours and metastases on the spinal column
- Spinal stenosis – narrowing of the spinal canal
- Herniated disc
- Herniated disc in the thoracic spine
- Slipped disc in the cervical spine – cervical disc herniation
- Herniated disc in the lumbar spine
- Medizinisches Zentrum Haus zur Pyramide
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Rückenpraxis Seefeld
Seefeldstrasse 277a
8008 Zürich
Profile
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.
Work Experience
Foundation of the Rückenpraxis Seefeld, Zurich
Attending physician at the Privatklinik Bethanien, Zurich
Attending physician, spinal surgery, Spital Zollikerberg, Zurich
Practice activity, spine practice Dr B. Wälchli, Zurich
Fellowship, neurosurgical spine surgery, especially cervical spine surgery, Toronto Western Hospital, CAN (Prof M. Fehlings)
Fellowship and debuty senior Physician, orthopaedic spine surgery, Universitätsspital Balgrist, Zurich (Prof M. Farshad)
Resident, neurosurgery, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen (Prof G. Hildebrandt, Prof A. Weyerbrock)
Resident, neurosurgery, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Zurich (PD Dr J. Oberle)
Resident, visceral, thoracic and vascular surgery, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Zurich (Prof M. Decurtins, Prof St. Breitenstein)
Research, University of California San Francisco, USA
Memberships
- 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
Competences
- 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
Education
Endoscopy Spine AO Advanced Course
Specialty title, spine surgery SGNC/SO
Fellowship diploma, University of Toronto, CAN
Fellowship diploma, Universitätsspital Balgrist, Zurich
Specialist diploma, neurosurgery
Endoscopy Spine AO Basic Course
Doctorate, Dr med, University of Bern
Medical studies, state examination, University of Bern
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