Ernest Braxton, MD | Spine Surgeon | Vail, Aspen, Denver, Grand Junction CO

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Dr. Ernest Braxton is a Board Certified neurosurgeon specializing in brain tumors, neurotrauma, and complex and minimally invasive outpatient spine surgery and artificial disc technology. He is passionate about minimally invasive spine surgery because patients return to performance faster. He is an expert with motion preservation technology such as artificial disc surgery and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Braxton is an Afghan war veteran with extensive experience caring for complex combat injuries during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Dr. Braxton Completes First “Awake” Spine Surgery in Vail

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Dr. Ernest Braxton, a Neurosurgeon at Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery, introduced a first-of-its-kind-in-Vail procedure [...]

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Prestige LP Cervical Disc

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What is the Prestige LP® Cervical Disc? As both a neurosurgeon and neck surgeon, Dr. [...]

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Posterior Cervical Laminectomy

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What is Posterior Cervical Laminectomy? As a neck surgeon, Dr. Braxton performs posterior cervical laminectomy [...]

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Mobi-C® Cervical Disc

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What is the Mobi-C® Cervical Disc? The Mobi-C® Cervical Disc is an artificial disc that [...]

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Concussions in Sports

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What is a Concussion? When there is a degree of impact or trauma to the [...]

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Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

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What is Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy? Cervical spondylotic myelopathy is a condition of the cervical spine, [...]

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Cervical Laminoplasty

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What is Cervical Laminoplasty? As a neck surgeon, Dr. Braxton performs cervical laminoplasty for patients [...]

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Artificial Disc Replacement Neck

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What is an Artificial Disc Replacement in the Neck? As a neck surgeon, Dr. Braxton [...]

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Cervical Anterior Microforaminotomy

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What is Cervical Microforaminotomy? As a neck surgeon, Dr. Braxton performs anterior microforaminotomy disc preservation [...]

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Anterior Cervical Decompression

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What is Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion? Patients who have been diagnosed with any of [...]

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Ernest Braxton, MD

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Apr 22, 2020

by Alan Danson on Ernest Braxton, MD

Feeling Better and with Great Service

"I’m back home after my microdiscectomy. It took five hours, door to door — and the attendant who received and sent me home told Silvia and me the it was a record. Who knew? The truth is that I was one of the only patients in the surgical wing of the hospital, so the staff was eager to serve me.

And serve me they did. I cannot tell you how incredible the attention I received was, from start to finish.

I’m typing this email at my stand-up desk that I haven’t been able to use since late February, when my sciatica kicked in. Of course, I’m still high on the epidural that they gave me, so let’s see how I feel when that wears off.

Now here’s the interesting aspect of all this. The word micro in microdiscectomy does not mean small. It refers to the fact that the surgery is performed by the surgeon, Dr. Ernest Braxton, of Vail Summit Orthopaedics, using a microscope and screen. He inserts a small hollow metal tube through a tiny (one inch) incision on the mid-line of my back, and uses surgical tools — one of which is a camera -- that are inserted through that tube and used to perform the operation. AND here is the best part. I got an epidural to allow placement of the tube, but otherwise I was awake and able to see the entire procedure on a second screen placed at the head end of the operating table. What a show!

If you want to know what Dr. Braxton saw and “fixed”, here’s what the op report said: "We identified a rostrally migrated lumbar disc herniation compressing the shoulder of the exiting L4 nerve root as well as a large foraminal disc herniation. These were resected via hemilaminotomy approach." ENOUGH."