CENTRAL MINNESOTA

SPINE CENTER

COMPREHENSIVE SPINE SURGERY CENTER

SERVING CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA

 NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA


Our Mission

Evaluation and Treatment of All types of Spine Problems no matter How Complex.

Patient is the king.  We want what is the best for the patient.  Surgery is undertaken only after conservative measures are exhausted.


Clinic  Profile

Dr. Sunny S. Kim is a fellowship-trained orthopedic spine surgeon who is board-certified in American Board of Orthopedic Surgery as well as  American Board of Spine Surgery.  He has extensive experience in spine surgery having performed over 8000  cases of spine surgery of various complexities over last 20 years.   He can evaluate and treat all types of spine problems no matter how complex they are.   He routinely performs cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and spinal deformity surgeries as well as interventional spinal  injections  at Douglas County Hospital voted recently as top 100 hospital in the United States. He also performs surgeries at Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls Minnesota and Riverview Health in Crookston Minnesota.  Currently he is performing over 400 spine surgery cases a year in addition to various spine injection interventions.  Click here for the complete list of all the procedures that he performs.  He has had top-notch training in various top-notch institutions in the United States including medical school, residency, and fellowship.  Please click on his Curriculum Vitae  for more information.

Dr. Maria Zorawska is a physical medicine rehabilitation specialist with over 20 year experience concentrating on exclusively spine problems.  She knows which patients need surgery and what types of surgeries they need.  For those patients spine surgery is not applicable she can manage them nonoperatively with her extensive expertise.  She is an expert  in medical acupuncture.  She can also perform electrodiagnostic procedures such as EMG's.   Please click on her Curriculum Vitae for more information. 

  Comprehensive Spine Rehab Clinic for  highly specialized expert nonsurgical treatment of chronic low back pain and chronic neck pain is also available at the clinic and is run by Douglas County Hospital.

Patients typically  come from the entire five state area of    Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin.     We are proud to claim that our clinic is 100% paperless meaning that all the data including medical records and imaging studies are digital and computerized.   Electronic medical records can be immediately available at the end of patient visit and can be given to patients upon request.  Records are also immediately transmitted to referring physicians without delay on the same day of patient visit.


How to get there and Contact Information and Information for Patients

Click here for directions on how to get to us

Maps: Click on thumbnails below to get more detailed maps

 

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We also have  outreach clinic in Fergus Falls and Crookston  and  Dr. Kim also performs  spine surgeries at Lake Region Health Corporation in Fergus Falls and Riverview Health in Crookston.

 

Telephone

320-763-8888; toll free 888-763-2772

FAX

320-763-8898

 

Postal address

1600 Broadway Street

Alexandria,  MN  56308

E mail:  skim@centralmnspine.com for Dr. Kim

               mzorawska@centralmnspine.com for Dr. Zorawska

               lolson@centralmnspine.com for business manager Lori Olson

               kfeist@centralmnspine.com for administrative assistant Kimberly Feist

               klysen@centralmnspine.com for administrative assistant Karla Lysen

              

Newsletter

     

Click here to see presentations of various spine surgeries that Dr. Kim has performed

Click here to see patient information on surgeries, injections, diagnostic conditions, policies, instructions

Click here to see the support staff profile

Click here for patient testimonials

Click here for new patient questionnaire form

Click here for video samples of spine surgeries