Dr. Matthew Geck

  • Scoliosis and Complex Spine Surgeon
  • Co-Chief, Texas Spine and Scoliosis Center
  • Director, Scoliosis and Complex Spine, Ascension Texas Brain and Spine Institute
  • Chief, Pediatric Spinal Deformity
  • Co-Chief, Adult Spinal Deformity
  • Medical Director SpineHope, a 501c3 Global Outreach and Domestic Hub Non-Profit

Dr. Geck’s practice is focused 100% on scoliosis, spondylolisthesis and spinal deformity surgery. Over the past 25 years since 2002, Dr. Geck has performed over 3,500 scoliosis and deformity surgeries, half of which were pediatric/adolescent patients. Dr. Geck has had one of the largest scoliosis and spinal deformity practices in Texas over the past 20 years.

His scoliosis practice receives patients from across a five state area, including Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico. Patients also travel to the Austin scoliosis center from Mexico, Central America and Canada. Dr. Geck specializes in pediatric, adolescent 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, vertebral tethering, complex spinal reconstruction, osteotomy surgery, flatback syndrome and complex revision surgeries.

Dr. Geck performed his undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin in the Medical Scholars program and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He attended medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and graduated Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr. Geck performed his orthopedic surgery residency at UCLA Medical Center. He then performed two spine fellowships in adult and pediatric spine surgery, the first at Jackson Memorial Hospital and a second in pediatric scoliosis and kyphosis surgery at Miami Children’s Hospital. 

Dr. Geck has authored more than 80 scientific papers, book chapters, and abstracts for several medical journals including: Spine, The Journal of Spinal Disorders; Orthopedic Clinics in North America; The Spine Journal; Journal of the Scoliosis Research Society; and Spinal Deformity. He has done 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. Geck is the co-founder of SpineHope, a charitable foundation for children in poverty-stricken countries across South America. He has traveled to more than 20 international locations. He has supervised or performed over 300 spine surgeries in these locales, and has seen over 1,000 children with severe or neglected spinal deformities. Through SpineHope, Dr. Geck trains other spine surgeons in these South America and Central America countries in the specialty of spinal deformity and scoliosis. To learn more about this charitable foundation, visit SpineHope.org

About Texas Spine and Scoliosis

Texas Spine & Scoliosis Center is designated as a Blue Distinction regional spine center by Blue Cross Blue Shield and certified by the Joint Commission Disease Specific Care Certification for Spine Surgery. Texas Spine & Scoliosis is the only spine center in Texas to be included in SpineCenterNetwork.com — a national listing of credentialed spine centers. To be included, a spine center must have fellowship-trained spine surgeons; physical medicine physicians; and an emphasis on non-surgical options. The spine center is also featured on the national site CentersforArtificialDisc.com. More information is a TexasSpineandScoliosis.com.





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. Matthew Geck over 25 years in practice has performed more than 3,500 scoliosis and spinal deformity surgeries. Dr. Geck receives 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 New Mexico. Dr. Geck’s practice is located in the regional spine center of excellence Texas Spine and Scoliosis in Austin, Texas. Dr. Matthew Geck treats pediatric scoliosis, adolescent scoliosis and adult scoliosis patients with advanced treatment options like vertebral tethering, mini scoliosis surgery through small incisions, and correction of Flatback Syndrome.