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Dr. Nitin Bhatia, a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon and Fellowship Trained Spinal surgeon, serves as Director of the Combined Spine Program and Chief of the Orthopedic Spinal Surgery Service at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Bhatia uses a multi-disciplinary non-surgical approach to treating all kinds of spine disorders which allows the majority of his patients to improve without surgical intervention. When surgery is necessary, Dr. Bhatia uses state-of-the-art techniques including minimally invasive surgery, endoscopic discectomy, percutaneous fusions, X-Stop lumbar stenosis treatment, and Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP), and kyphoplasty help to cure his patients' problems with minimal recovery time and less discomfort than other methods.