APTEUM
Advancing Patient care through Technology that Empowers and Unburdens Medicine.
Apteum Spine Story
Apteum Spine is determined to improve the quality of life for all neck and back pain patients. We promise to treat every patient with the same attention, care, and respect we demand.
We offer comprehensive services at various locations in New Jersey, New York (Queens), and Long Island. Apteum Spine’s comprehensive program treats spine and musculoskeletal pain disorders to deliver the finest quality care in a friendly and warm environment.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to provide spine pain patients with the best possible care by: 1) aggregating and analyzing existing relevant medical data, 2) employing technologies that connect and inform all of the patient’s spine care providers regardless of their geography, specialty or institution to achieve a virtual care team empowered to achieve remedies where previously none could be found and 3) by defining success as improved quality of life above all other measures.
OUR VISION
A world where everyone has the best possible medical care
that science can offer regardless of geography, social status, creed or race.
Experience & careful judgment
Meet Dr. Cornacchia.
Louis G. Cornacchia III, M.D., FAANS, FACS
A board-certified neurosurgeon with 30 years of spinal cord stimulation experience.
More about Dr. Cornacchia’s experience and SCS device decisions
Spinal cord stimulation experience
Experienced neurosurgical judgment before device decisions.
A spinal cord stimulator is a medical device decision, but it is also a diagnosis decision. Apteum’s evaluation is designed to clarify whether SCS is reasonable, whether another spine problem needs attention, and what goals should define success for you.
He works with a community of experienced pain-management doctors and with Medtronic, Boston Scientific, and other manufacturers.
Manufacturer relationships do not imply endorsement of a specific device for every patient. Brand and system selection should be based on clinical need, anatomy, MRI considerations, programming goals, prior device history, and shared decision-making.
Additional systems as clinically appropriateYour evaluation focuses on your diagnosis, prior care and goals. Discuss the expected benefits, limitations, risks and alternatives before choosing your next step. An evaluation is not a commitment to surgery or an implant.
Read Dr. Cornacchia’s training and experience →How spinal cord stimulation works
Watch this explanation created by Dr. Cornacchia. Spinal cord stimulation is one option for selected patients after evaluation; it is not appropriate for every cause of pain and does not replace the discussion of the treatment on this page.