A minimally invasive and cervical spine surgeon practicing with Texas Bone and Joint across Fort Worth, Keller, and Lewisville. Our practice focuses on the advanced care of complex disorders of the spine, dedicated to maximizing range of motion and function. We combine cutting-edge clinical expertise with a patient-centered approach to deliver lasting relief.
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Qasim Zaidi, MD, FAAOS
Dr. Qasim Zaidi is a fellowship-trained orthopedic spine surgeon specializing in minimally invasive techniques and cervical spine care. He treats the full range of neck and back conditions — from disc herniation and spinal stenosis to cervical myelopathy and degenerative disease — with an emphasis on getting patients back to their lives with as little disruption as the problem allows.
He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California, followed by a high-volume spine surgery fellowship at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston — a hospital whose entire institutional focus is orthopedics, and one of the busiest spine fellowships in the country. He is board certified in Orthopedic Surgery and a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (FAAOS).
That training shapes how he practices. A high-volume fellowship means seeing the same problem enough times to know which patterns respond to which operation, and which ones resolve without one. Most patients who walk into his clinic do not end up in an operating room.
The aim is the smallest operation that solves the problem for good.
When surgery is the right answer, Dr. Zaidi performs both minimally invasive and open procedures, and he is deliberate about the distinction. Minimally invasive technique offers smaller incisions, less muscle disruption, and often a faster early recovery — but it suits some problems better than others. Certain anatomy, deformity, and revision work are handled more safely through a traditional open approach. Choosing correctly between them is the actual skill.
His cervical practice is the core of his work: anterior and posterior approaches for radiculopathy, myelopathy, and degenerative cervical disease. He also performs MIS TLIF, tubular discectomy and laminectomy, basivertebral nerve ablation for vertebrogenic low back pain, and image-guided injections — supported by O-Arm CT-guided navigation, Globus robotic assistance, and the ultrasonic bone scalpel.
Where the pain travels, what makes it worse, what you have already tried, and what you are actually trying to get back to doing. The imaging is then read in the context of that history.
Nearly every adult spine MRI shows something abnormal. What matters is whether the finding explains your specific pain pattern. A disc bulge that does not correlate with your symptoms is not the target.
Therapy, activity modification, and targeted injections come first for most patients. Surgery enters the conversation when conservative care has been given a fair trial, or when the clinical picture — progressive weakness, myelopathy — means waiting carries its own risk.
What is being decompressed or fused, why that level, what the alternatives were, and what recovery realistically looks like. That discussion is the substance of informed consent.
Dr. Zaidi helps train the next generation of spine surgeons. Surgeons are chosen for that role by their peers: you are asked to teach when the people who already do this work consider your technique worth passing on.
It also changes how you operate. Teaching means articulating your reasoning out loud to people trained to ask why — why this approach, why this level, why stop here. A surgeon who has to justify each step does not get to operate on autopilot, and having your technique examined regularly is one of the better safeguards against drift.
For your own case, the practical answer is simple: Dr. Zaidi performs your operation himself. He is present for the entire case and personally responsible for every part of it.
Dr. Zaidi was amazing and I love how he was straight and to the point. There was no messing around with my problem at hand and he was prepared with a game plan for future treatments. I felt heard and respected during our visit.Désirée O. · Google review
Very personable. Very matter of fact. Not aggressive with treatment plan; starts slow in order to try all options to avoid surgery.Kaye M. · Google review
I chose to walk away from a different surgeon and instead have Dr. Zaidi operate on my spine based off of recommendations from friends in the medical field. Every good thing you hear about him is absolutely true.Brent M. · Google review
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