Dr. Matthew Geck

  • Board-certified Orthopedic Surgeon
  • Fellowship-Trained in Adult and Pediatric Spine Surgery
  • Co-Chief, Ascension Texas/Seton Spine and Scoliosis Center, Austin Texas
  • Chief, Scoliosis and Complex Spine Program
  • Assistant Professor, Dell Medical School Department of Surgery and Preoperative Care
  • Co-Founder, Co-Medical Director, SpineHope

About Dr. Geck,

Matthew J. Geck MD is a spine and scoliosis surgeon who has focused his practice exclusively on spine and scoliosis surgery. This includes patients with adult and pediatric scoliosis, kyphosis, failed surgeries, spinal cord compression, and other complex spinal problems. He has performed over 2500 spine operations. He has been in practice in Austin, Texas since 2002. He has had the largest spinal deformity (scoliosis and kyphosis) practice in Central Texas since 2005.

Dr. Geck’s focus is on pediatric and adult patients with scoliosis, kyphosis, spinal cord compression, failed previous surgeries, and other complex spinal problems. He is experienced in minimally invasive scoliosis surgery, spinal stapling and tethering (fusionless scoliosis surgery), complex spinal reconstruction, osteotomy surgery, and revision surgeries.

Dr. Geck is a leader in Global Outreach for spinal deformities. In his roles as visiting surgeon and Medical Director, he has traveled on over 20 global outreach trips, supervised or performed over 200 surgeries, and seen over 1000 patients with severe or neglected spinal deformities, including training spine surgeons at these hospitals to perform spinal deformity surgeries. To learn more about this work, please see our heading under SpineHope.

Dr. Geck has authored more than 80 scientific papers, book chapters, and abstracts for the journals Spine, The Journal of Spinal Disorders, Orthopedic Clinics in North America, The Spine Journal, and the Journal of the Scoliosis Research Society: Spinal Deformity, and presentations at the Scoliosis Research Society, International Meeting for Advanced Spinal Techniques, North American Spine Society, Cervical Spine Research Society, the Society for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Spine, and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Dr. Geck was certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2004 and is a Fellow of the American Orthopedic Association, the Scoliosis Research Society, North American Spine Society, and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the Society for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Spine, and the Cervical Spine Research Society.





Dr. Matthew Geck’s charity mission for children and adolescents with scoliosis in Nicaragua through SpineHope

Dr. Matthew Geck travels often to Central America and provides free scoliosis surgery to poor children and adolescents with extreme cases of scoliosis as part of a charitable mission called "Spine Hope.” The scoliosis surgery is life changing for these children and teens. By bringing advanced scoliosis surgery techniques and technology to these countries, Dr. Geck helps train local orthopedic spine surgeons in scoliosis surgery so they are able to continue the charitable mission work.

The recent Nicaragua mission was provided in partnership with host spine surgeon, Dr. Zeyra del Camen Lopez Aguilar and team at the Dr. Fernando Vélez Paiz Hospital in Managua (including Medical Director Dr. Maria Virginia Garcia Almendarez, Dr. Evel Lopez, Dr. Eder Martinez, and Dr. Johana Lissette Galan Lopez), and the Ministry of Health.

SpineHope is working to build a pediatric spine program in Nicaragua. In addition to providing charity spine surgery and post-op care to children whose families do not have the resources to pay for costly treatment, this program will also offer training and education to surgeons, medical staff, residents, and medical students in the region on advanced surgical techniques and spine safety protocols.

Dr. Rory Mayer and Dr. Matthew Geck receive referrals for pediatric scoliosis, adolescent scoliosis and adult scoliosis from across the United States, including many patient referrals from the five state region of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two scoliosis specialists practice represent the scoliosis team within the regional spine center of excellence Texas Spine and Scoliosis based out Austin, Texas. What makes this scoliosis team unique is that it combines the expertise of a fellowship-trained orthopedic spine surgeon (Dr. Matt Geck) with a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon (Dr. Rory Mayer). This provides the best scoliosis approach combining neurosurgery and orthopedic spine surgery. Dr. Matt Geck treats pediatric scoliosis, adolescent scoliosis and adult scoliosis patients, including flatback syndrome, with a minimally invasive scoliosis surgery approach using three small incisions rather than one long incision. Dr. Rory Mayer (https://rorymayermd.com/) specializes in adult scoliosis and flatback surgery.