Dr. Todd F. VanderHeiden is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon at Panorama Orthopedics & Spine Center specializing in spinal disorders. As a Colorado native, he feels a special calling to serve his local community and has dedicated his career to providing exceptional spinal care.
Dr. VanderHeiden’s expertise focuses on the most complex and challenging areas of spinal surgery, including spinal trauma cases. His personal experience with debilitating nerve pain from a basketball injury, which was successfully treated through spinal surgery, gives him unique insight into what patients experience and motivates his commitment to helping others reclaim their lives through surgical intervention.
Dr. VanderHeiden places the highest value on patient care and promises to give everything in his power to ensure good outcomes for his patients. He genuinely cares for his patients like family members and gives all of his focus and attention to their results. His patient care philosophy is driven by his understanding that spinal surgery can be life-changing, as it was for him personally.
Outside of medicine, Dr. VanderHeiden stays active through big-mountain and helicopter skiing, hiking Colorado 14ers, longboard skateboarding, cross-training, and enjoying outdoor adventures like hiking, zip lining, and cliff jumping with his wife and two daughters, Alice and Matilda.
Friendly and helpful. All the staff we encountered were both. Dr vanderheiden was gracious enough to fit us in to discuss my issues when his assistant who was going to help me was called away. Over and above. Thanks
googleTop end healthcare quality. Direct, focused, knowledgeable experience in patient care.
googleTook the time to explain details of MRI and the impact of an old injury that I had always wondered about. That was not the purpose of the visit, but it certainly made it.
googleI am so grateful for Dr. Vanderheiden. To have a Dr. who is so knowledgeable, kind, caring, and professional is very important to me. His skill in spine surgery has taken away my pain. I feel more confident in my physical abilities now, and even t… I am so grateful for Dr. Vanderheiden. To have a Dr. who is so knowledgeable, kind, caring, and professional is very important to me. His skill in spine surgery has taken away my pain. I feel more confident in my physical abilities now, and even though I am heading into o e more fusion surgery, I am very confident that I will once again be pain free and back to enjoying life. (I have rheumatoid disease and EDS.) Read more
googleDr. Vanderheiden is an excellent spine surgeon and I would recommend him to future patients. My 7 hour surgery included straightening my scoliosis, eliminating sciatica, and he took care of my stenosis. He clearly explains his diagnosis and what nee… Dr. Vanderheiden is an excellent spine surgeon and I would recommend him to future patients. My 7 hour surgery included straightening my scoliosis, eliminating sciatica, and he took care of my stenosis. He clearly explains his diagnosis and what needs to be done in surgery. You are in good hands with Dr. Vanderheiden. Read more
googleDoctor VanderHeiden was excellent. He listened, he was truly a doctor who showed he was concerned and his feedback was very organized so even I could understand. An overall really nice experience!
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