Microdiscectomy Spine Surgery

There are many methods in spine surgery and microdiscectomy spine surgery is only one of them. Some which are performed in the case of herniated disks, such as a surgical operation of discectomy (extraction) and low back pain, have some procedures. The procedure which is generally from ancient times performed as for the Love method is a procedure of the Love method which cuts the back side open 7-8 cm, deletes a part of vertebral arch, and removes an intervertebral disc.

Starting walking on two to the 3rd after an operation, hospitalization is about two to three weeks.

The bottom discectomy of a microscope (the MD method) is the procedure of performing an operation on a low stress from the small wound which is called the bottom discectomy of an endoscope (the MED method), and has spread recently.

The wound of an operation is as small as a little less than 2 cm by a little less than 3 cm and the MED method by the MD method, and, as for the good point, any procedure has few postoperative pains.

Being able to walk from the day following an operation, hospitalization is about one week from the 5th.

Special technique is required for the doctor who performs an operation on all.

These days, it is carried out increasingly in the institution where the PELD method for making a stress small further and extracting a hernia using an endoscope from a 6-mm wound was also limited.

Laser surgery (the PLDD method) is the technique which burns a part of vertebral pulp by irradiating the center section of the intervertebral disc with laser, makes it make it return to the place whose hernia which jumped out by dropping intervertebral disc internal pressure is origin, and reduces the pressure to a nerve.

Although there is an advantage made in an one day trip, the local anesthesia, and the minimum incision, there is no indication of health insurance and all become own expense.

In order to touch a hernia directly and not to operate it, although the pressure to a nerve is not necessarily canceled always and cost starts, an effect does not carry out fixed.

As for a difficulty, there are many relapse and eternal examples.

The percutaneous vertebral-pulp extraction (the PN method) inserts a pipe thin to an intervertebral disc by about 5-mm incision under the local anesthesia using a fluoroscope, and extracts the vertebral pulp little by little by punch through it.

In order not to touch directly the hernia of which this technique also jumped out -- an age -- aged 40 and below -- the inside of the vertebral canal -- rupture -- there is a limit of not having carried out and it has not come to be carried out widely. The microdiscectomy spine surgery requires expertise and only the health specialist or surgeons who has skills can perform the surgery. Even after the surgery, more than 15 treatments or therapy are required.