New London patients travel approximately 55 minutes along the Connecticut and Rhode Island coastline to Dr. Basques' East Greenwich office. As a deep-water port city and home to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London has an active maritime community where maintaining physical function is essential. Dr. Basques' motion-preserving spine surgery techniques — including cervical disc replacement (CDR) and lumbar disc replacement — are particularly valuable for New London patients who want to remain active in their careers and recreation after spine surgery. Unlike fusion, which eliminates motion at the operated level, disc replacement preserves natural spine mechanics and has been shown in long-term studies to reduce the risk of adjacent segment degeneration, potentially avoiding future surgeries.

Dr. Basques sees patients from Downtown Waterfront, Fort Trumbull, Ocean Beach, Hodges Square, Connecticut College Area, Green's Harbor and all surrounding neighborhoods. As one of very few spine surgeons in New England offering the complete range of advanced surgical techniques under one roof, he provides New London residents with options that go far beyond what is typically available at community hospitals and even many academic medical centers.