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Living with a spine, neck, or back issue is challenging. But healing is possible when you choose Saint Luke's Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute. Our team of specialists will help you get back to the life you love.

Pressure injuries can involve open wounds or discoloration of skin. They can arise over bony prominences (such as the spine, shoulders, skull, elbow, finger, pelvis, hip, ankle, heel, midfoot or toe) or from an outside surface causing pressure such as a medical device or tube, edge of a table, arm of a chair or toilet seat.

The surgeons at Saint Luke's Center for Surgical Weight Loss offer the sleeve gastrectomy procedure, which involves removing a large portion of the stomach.

Saint Luke’s is a leader in kidney transplantation—performing the first successful kidney transplant in the Kansas City area in 1969 and the first living kidney donation surgery via laparoscopy in the region.