Alexander Taghva, MD - Neurosurgery, 26732 Crown Valley Pkwy, Suite 541 (2025)

13/10/2025

At the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting — inspired by Andre Agassi’s talk today.
A few lessons that hit home:
1️⃣ The best in the world treat big moments and small moments the same. Be present.
2️⃣ Don’t obsess over short-term results. Losses can teach more than wins, and wins can make you complacent.
3️⃣ For our kids: Make sure their dreams are theirs, not yours — but hold them accountable to those dreams.
4️⃣ Burnout isn’t an enemy to eliminate — it’s a relationship to define. It’s part of any high-stress pursuit.
Grateful for the reminder that excellence is as much about mindset as mastery.

13/10/2025

At the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting — inspired by Andre Agassi’s talk today.
A few lessons that hit home:
1️⃣ The best in the world treat big moments and small moments the same. Be present.
2️⃣ Don’t obsess over short-term results. Losses can teach more than wins, and wins can make you complacent.
3️⃣ For our kids: Make sure their dreams are theirs, not yours — but hold them accountable to those dreams.
4️⃣ Burnout isn’t an enemy to eliminate — it’s a relationship to define. It’s part of any high-stress pursuit.
Grateful for the reminder that excellence is as much about mindset as mastery.

$A Tale of Three SpinesThree patients.Same diagnosis — L5 pars fracture with spondylolisthesis.Ages spanning five decades...$

10/10/2025

A Tale of Three Spines
Three patients.
Same diagnosis — L5 pars fracture with spondylolisthesis.
Ages spanning five decades.
Completely different lives.
One came to me in a wheelchair.
One stretches every morning and gets by.
One still surfs — and just feels sore the day after.
Only one of them had surgery.
Ironically, it was the youngest one… and the spine that looked the least bad on imaging.
That’s the paradox of spine care — anatomy doesn’t predict pain.
Pain is personal.
It depends on movement, mindset, and meaning as much as it does on MRI.
We perform 180× more spine fusions per capita in the U.S. than in the U.K.
And yet, the most important diagnostic tool I use isn’t the MRI —
…it’s the conversation.
The MRI shows anatomy.
The patient shows the truth.
Poll: which image was the one that had surgery?

09/10/2025

When I was a med student at Hopkins, a small summer grant gave me the freedom to study music at Peabody and dive into early neurosurgery research. That balance—between art and science—shaped how I show up for my patients every day.
Today, I’m proud to give that same opportunity to the next generation.
Introducing the Taghva Family Experiential Learning Fund—supporting Hopkins med students who want to explore beyond the classroom and grow not just as doctors, but as whole people.
This year, I’m directing birthday gifts and patient donations toward the fund. If you believe in human-centered medicine, I’d love your support too.
🧠🎼 Link in bio or visit: aspire.hopkinsmedicine.org/project/48118

13/05/2025

Did you know that multifidus atrophy and dysfunction is a common cause of persistent low back pain? Back injuries, including disc herniations, can inhibit function of the multifidus muscle, which is why back pain can persist even after the disc herniation resolves. This muscle is notoriously hard to rehabilitate with physical therapy, and now we can offer an outpatient procedure that stimulates and rehabilitates the multifidus muscle, with long term data showing significant improvements in back pain. Notice on this MRI the patchy atrophy of the muscles surrounding the spine, and here is an XR showing the implantation of leads to stimulate the muscle.

05/04/2025

How much do you trust hospitals? Back in 2018, we started doing endoscopic spine surgery at , and I posted it here on instagram. I had the opportunity to help a lot of patients and even be faculty for international events with to allow other doctors to help their own patients. So imagine my surprise when the 2025 and mailer, which likely went out to thousands of patients, said that, 7 years later, Hoag was “the first” to perform endoscopic spine surgery in Orange County… do you think it’s an honest mistake, or another case of the loudest voices in the room defining the “truth.” I’ll leave this here and we will find out. Independent doctors are getting squashed by large entities and the only ones getting hurt are patients.

31/03/2025

It’s a rare treat that I get to have dinner with my wife and lower my ICP at the same time

17/12/2024

A lot of talk about the alleged United Healthcare CEO shooter having a botched spine surgery - rather than be critical here, I’d like to point out some principles that I use to ensure good outcomes using a recent XR posted by one of my patients.

Anterior column support (here with an ALIF) to prevent hardware failure, maintenance or restoration of lordosis to limit adjacent segment disease and maintain sagittal balance , and accurate screw placement to prevent radiculopathies and nerve injuries requiring revision surgery.

09/10/2024

Had an exciting opportunity to talk about closed loop spinal cord stimulation at the meeting with Lisa Johanek and Victoria Flower. I was so excited in fact, that apparently my eyes were closed throughout the entire talk.

09/10/2024

Got a chance to share the stage at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons meeting with colleague and neuromodulation luminary to discuss one of my favorite topics: spinal cord stimulation for nonsurgical back pain.

09/10/2024

OCNA Group Dinner

Monday	08:30 - 16:45
Tuesday	08:30 - 16:45
Wednesday	08:30 - 16:45
Thursday	08:30 - 16:45
Friday	08:30 - 16:45

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