Dr. Varma and his team are absolutely exceptional - I can't say enough great things to describe my experience and results!
I've had various degrees of lower back and sciatica pain for about 20 years with a number of doctors recommending either a fusion of L4/L5 and L5/S1 or disc replacements. The last month before my surgery with Dr Varma, I was in excruciating pain - essentially laying on the floor, not being able to walk much, taking all sorts of drugs that didn't work, and screaming due to pain.
I made an appointment to see Dr. Varma with my wife after having researched "best spine doctors/surgeons in NYC" and reading all his amazing reviews on various sites. On my first visit he literally spent one full hour with us in the room discussing the basics, answering all our questions in depth, reviewing MRIs, X-Rays, and all sorts of reports I brought in detail before discussing symptoms and my various options. And then he recommended a discectomy (a minimally invasive surgical procedure that removes a damaged or herniated portion of a spinal disc to relieve pressure on spinal nerve roots) - nobody else recommended that option before and I absolutely loved that recommendation because it's less invasive than a fusion or disc replacement but still gives me the option to do either of them down the road, if needed.
Dr. Varma has a very full schedule but his team squeezed me in right-away due to the level of pain I was in. Christine and the rest of Dr. Varma's team was extremely personal, kind, proactive, solution-oriented, and professional - everything went smoothly. On the day of surgery, at the hospital, it was no different. And, most importantly, I woke up from surgery without any pain whatsoever and walked out of the hospital 5 hours later. Absolutely incredible!
It's clearly evident that Dr. Varma is not only extremely knowledgeable and skillful in his craft but super passionate about it. If you need another opinion or are far enough down the road looking for a surgeon, you're in excellent hands with Dr. Varma and his team!