Find an IVDD Specialist Near You

If you’re here, something is probably already wrong with your dog — and your gut is telling you it’s their back. That’s the moment this page is for.

When my dachshund Heidi reached her own IVDD crisis, the most useful thing my regular vet did was tell us, plainly, that we needed a neurologist. Not a general vet who occasionally sees spinal cases. A board-certified veterinary neurologist — a vet who has spent additional years training specifically in conditions like IVDD, who has handled hundreds of these cases, and who knows the difference between a dog who can still recover and one who can’t. That distinction can come down to hours.

The other thing that matters: whether the practice has an MRI on-site. Imaging is how a neurologist actually sees what’s happening to the disc and the spinal cord. If a hospital has to refer your dog out for an MRI, that’s an extra day of waiting and an extra transfer — and in a Grade 4 or 5 case, that’s time your dog may not have. Practices that own their imaging move fast.

This list exists because I couldn’t find a clean, owner-friendly way to look up specialists when we needed one. It pulls from the ACVIM board-certified directory and pairs that with major specialty hospital networks across the US. Every entry is being reviewed by hand — none of these practices paid to be here.

Pick your state below to start.