Spine Surgery – Procedure, Diagnosis, and Treatment
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What is Spine Surgery?
Spine surgery is a surgical procedure that is performed to relieve a person from pain because of spinal problems. It helps in stabilizing spinal joints and vertebral bones caused due to herniated discs, spinal abnormalities, bone spurs, spine injuries, or spinal tumors. Spine surgery is also known as Endoscopic Spine Surgery (ESS), Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS), and Arthroscopic Spine Surgery. These advanced techniques do not really affect the nearby muscles and tissues of the spine. Therefore, the pain and recovery duration is lesser compared to traditional spine surgery.
Types of Spine Surgery
Various types of spine surgery are as follows:
Cervical disc replacement: During this procedure, a surgeon removes damaged disc portions or the entire disc and replaces it with a bone graft or artificial parts. The common benefits of this surgery include more mobility, quicker recovery, improved function, and lower risk of future pain.
Discectomy: This surgery involves the removal of a portion of a herniated or bulging disc that is pressing on spinal nerves, causing pain and other symptoms.
Foraminotomy: During this surgical procedure, a surgeon widens the area around the bones in the spinal column. This surgery helps in relieving the pressure on compressed spinal nerves.
Spinal laminectomy: A laminectomy surgery involves removing all or part of the lamina (the back part of the bone that covers your spinal canal). The aim of this surgery is to decrease compression to the spinal cord. Laminectomy is a common spinal stenosis treatment.
Microdiscectomy: It is a minimally invasive procedure in which a surgeon removes pieces of a herniated or ruptured disc to relieve back pain.
Lumbar discectomy: A lumbar discectomy is spine surgery involving an injured disc in the patient’s lower back region. There are two types of lumbar discectomy: minimally invasive arthroscopic discectomy and open spine surgery. Open spine surgery is the more common procedure for a herniated disc in the lumbar area.
Vertebroplasty/ Kyphoplasty: A kyphoplasty treats a compression fracture. The surgeon uses a balloon and special cement to stabilize the bone. The procedure restores some height to the compressed vertebrae (bones that form your spinal column).
Foraminotomy: This surgery enlarges the space where spinal nerves exit the spinal canal, relieving nerve compression caused by conditions like spinal stenosis or foraminal stenosis.
Artificial Disc Replacement: This surgery involves replacing a damaged or degenerated spinal disc with an artificial disc, allowing for continued motion at the affected spinal level.
Spinal fusion: Spinal fusions permanently connect two or more vertebrae. You may need a spinal fusion to treat spinal instability, scoliosis, or a herniated disc. During a spinal fusion, the surgeon connects two adjacent vertebrae in order to avoid pain caused by their movement against each other. The surgeon uses small screws and rods to connect the vertebrae, and they are then left to heal and fuse together naturally. The physician may also take a small bone graft from another part of your body to help the vertebrae fuse.
When is Spine Surgery Required?
Several factors can lead to the spine surgery, including: back and cervical pain, traumatic injury, and a fracture or loss of function due to spinal cord injury).The pain can result from a variety of degenerative bone and muscle conditions. The following are a few reasons why an orthopedic surgeon may recommend spine surgery-
Degenerative disk disease, like spinal arthritis, spinal stenosis
Herniated disc with associated complications like sciatica
Spinal instability
Bone spurs and tumors
Scoliosis
