When thinking about the long-term future of spine surgery, some procedures stand out for their cost-effectiveness.

spinal stenosis, facet hypertrophy Percutaneous laser discectomy Same as standard microdiscectomy History of previous lumbar surgery, workman's compensation, stenosis, facet hypertrophy ...

University Hospitals is now offering endoscopic spine surgery for patients needing treatment for back pain due to herniated discs in their spine. Xiaofei (Sophie) Zhou, MD, completed ...

Microdiscectomy is the gold standard treatment ... 7 weeks after symptom onset (Rosomoff & Rosomoff, 1999). Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is the narrowing of the central canal and, often, the ...

Microdiscectomy surgery, also known as microdecompression surgery, is a surgical procedure used to get pressure off a lumbar ...

Open microdiscectomy was performed under general anaesthesia ... By inducing less surgical trauma to the lumbar spine, PTED facilitates patients to mobilise earlier but also to return earlier to daily ...

Lumbar disc prolapse is among the most frequent causes of Back pain resulting in surgery accounting for 5% of all lumbar ...

in which the intervertebral disc is removed and the remaining vertebral bones are fused to create more space in the spinal canal. This procedure is known as an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion ...

Surgical options aim to relieve pressure on the spinal cord and provide stability to the neck. Common procedures are posterior cervical laminectomy, discectomy and fusion, or corpectomy.