Rachel Bratescu

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Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast · Rachel Bratescu, MD, Orthopaedic Surgeon and member of the GW Spine and Pain Center at George Washington University Hospital · 10 Jan 2026 podcast

Thank you.

Thanks so much for having me.

I'm thrilled.

Yeah.

So my name is Rachel Bertescu.

I'm an orthopedic spine surgeon in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at George Washington University, where I'm faculty in Washington, D.C.

Yeah, I would say great question to kick off the new year.

Number one, my number one goal, I would say is incorporating endoscopy in my practice.

So if you're not familiar, or those are not familiar, spinal endoscopy is a technique that a lot of people are more familiar with in the context of other joints, right?

So the shoulder, the knee and the hip, for example.

It's the idea of doing the work that you need to do as a surgeon through one portal while viewing and seeing what you're doing in another portal.

What's really exciting is that this technique can also be translated to spine surgery.

This was a technique I trained in during one of my fellowships, my orthopedic spine fellowship at NYU.

I was trained in biportal endoscopy.

What makes this unique is that it is essentially doing ultra minimally invasive spine surgery.

This is incredibly important when we are looking to offer patients less invasive forms of surgery that can get them out of surgery with less pain in the acute postoperative period and get them back to the things that they love to do.

Whether that's working, whether that's spending time with your family or any other recreational activities that

Patients want to get back into whether that's sports or just staying active throughout your life.

So this is a really amazing technique in particular for spinal surgeries, such as decompressions and microdiscectomies, but it's also being utilized as well in some fusion surgeries.

I'm currently in the process of having this approved at our hospital.

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