Why Minimally Invasive Surgeries Provides an Effective Alternative to Open Back Procedures
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Article Title: Why Minimally Invasive Surgeries Provides an Effective Alternative to Open Back Procedures
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Spine surgery is complicated, no matter how you look at it. A surgeon must be adept and skillful enough to remove deteriorated intervertebral discs, bone spurs, and other anatomical abnormalities, and in some cases, fuse vertebrae. And this must be accomplished without damaging a delicate nerve system: the spinal cord and its nerve roots.
While surgery to treat spine conditions is recommended relatively infrequently, for some patients, a surgical procedure is the last treatment option that could provide some relief from the varying symptoms caused by a neck or back condition. Patients whose physicians recommended surgery once had only one option: open back surgery, a highly invasive operation. Now, thanks to many developments in surgical technology and science, there are minimally invasive spine procedures that can often be performed in lieu of open spine surgery. To fully understand why minimally invasive options are effective alternatives to open back surgery, it can be helpful to first have an understanding of the highly invasive procedure.
Open Spine Surgery
Open spine surgery involves a surgeon making large incisions in the neck, back, abdomen, or throat. Additionally, the muscles, ligaments, tendons, and other soft tissues that support the spine must be dissected or even detached from bone so the surgeon can properly access the affected area of the spine.
Next, depending on a patient�s specific condition, the surgeon will remove an intervertebral disc, bone spur, calcified ligament, or another anatomical abnormality from the spine. In some cases, vertebrae may require realignment. Removal and adjustment of spinal components is often required to relieve pressure placed on the spinal cord or its nerve roots. This compression is typically what leads to the radiating pain, numbness, weakness, and tingling in the arms or legs that many patients with spine conditions experience.
If a large amount of spinal anatomy is removed, properly stabilizing the spine may be required. Stabilization is performed via a spinal fusion, or a procedure in which two or more adjacent vertebrae are permanently fused together with bone grafts and hardware, effectively halting movement in that particular motion segment. While fusion performed during open back surgery can provide the stability the spine needs, it can also limit a patient�s range of motion and may even contribute to abnormal functioning in another motion segment, which can cause another set of symptoms to affect the patient.
Due to the level of invasiveness required to perform open spine surgeries, there is a higher risk for bleeding, infection, and significant scarring. Additionally, the recovery period is often very difficult and long lasting for patients.
Minimally Invasive Procedures
Surgeons performing minimally invasive spine procedures generally have the same goals as when performing open spine surgery: to remove deteriorated spinal components, decompress neural structures, and stabilize the spine if necessary. The difference between these two types of operations is the surgical approach. While open spine surgery requires large incisions and soft tissue dissection, minimally invasive procedures only require small incisions, through which a series of dilating tubes is inserted to gently push soft tissue aside. Once a surgeon has reached the affected area of the spine, an endoscope (camera), laser, and tiny surgical instruments are funneled through the tubes and are used to remove anatomical abnormalities, usually just the portion that is compressing the spinal cord or nerve roots versus a spinal component in its entirety. If necessary, spinal fusion, in the form of a minimally invasive spine stabilization procedure, may also be performed.
Minimally invasive procedures are effective alternatives to open spine surgery because spinal soft tissues are left largely undisturbed and the removal of spinal components is kept at a minimum. As a result, there is less risk for blood loss, infection, and scarring. More importantly, a patient�s recovery is typically faster and far less arduous than the type of recovery associated with open spine surgery.
Open spine surgery may still be the only option for some patients requiring emergency spine care, and not all patients will be candidates for minimally invasive spine surgery. If your physician has asked you to consider a neck or back surgery, find out whether you�re a candidate for a minimally invasive option.
About The Author: John Soland is an experienced writer who is able to offer advice and insight on a multitude of topics, including those pertaining to minimally invasive surgery. http://www.lsiscottsdale.com/
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Spine surgery is complicated, no matter how you look at it. A surgeon must be adept and skillful enough to remove deteriorated intervertebral discs, bone spurs, and other anatomical abnormalities, and in some cases, fuse vertebrae. And this must be accomplished without damaging a delicate nerve system: the spinal cord and its nerve roots.
While surgery to treat spine conditions is recommended relatively infrequently, for some patients, a surgical procedure is the last treatment option that could provide some relief from the varying symptoms caused by a neck or back condition. Patients whose physicians recommended surgery once had only one option: open back surgery, a highly invasive operation. Now, thanks to many developments in surgical technology and science, there are minimally invasive spine procedures that can often be performed in lieu of open spine surgery. To fully understand why minimally invasive options are effective alternatives to open back surgery, it can be helpful to first have an understanding of the highly invasive procedure.
Open Spine Surgery
Open spine surgery involves a surgeon making large incisions in the neck, back, abdomen, or throat. Additionally, the muscles, ligaments, tendons, and other soft tissues that support the spine must be dissected or even detached from bone so the surgeon can properly access the affected area of the spine.
Next, depending on a patient�s specific condition, the surgeon will remove an intervertebral disc, bone spur, calcified ligament, or another anatomical abnormality from the spine. In some cases, vertebrae may require realignment. Removal and adjustment of spinal components is often required to relieve pressure placed on the spinal cord or its nerve roots. This compression is typically what leads to the radiating pain, numbness, weakness, and tingling in the arms or legs that many patients with spine conditions experience.
If a large amount of spinal anatomy is removed, properly stabilizing the spine may be required. Stabilization is performed via a spinal fusion, or a procedure in which two or more adjacent vertebrae are permanently fused together with bone grafts and hardware, effectively halting movement in that particular motion segment. While fusion performed during open back surgery can provide the stability the spine needs, it can also limit a patient�s range of motion and may even contribute to abnormal functioning in another motion segment, which can cause another set of symptoms to affect the patient.
Due to the level of invasiveness required to perform open spine surgeries, there is a higher risk for bleeding, infection, and significant scarring. Additionally, the recovery period is often very difficult and long lasting for patients.
Minimally Invasive Procedures
Surgeons performing minimally invasive spine procedures generally have the same goals as when performing open spine surgery: to remove deteriorated spinal components, decompress neural structures, and stabilize the spine if necessary. The difference between these two types of operations is the surgical approach. While open spine surgery requires large incisions and soft tissue dissection, minimally invasive procedures only require small incisions, through which a series of dilating tubes is inserted to gently push soft tissue aside. Once a surgeon has reached the affected area of the spine, an endoscope (camera), laser, and tiny surgical instruments are funneled through the tubes and are used to remove anatomical abnormalities, usually just the portion that is compressing the spinal cord or nerve roots versus a spinal component in its entirety. If necessary, spinal fusion, in the form of a minimally invasive spine stabilization procedure, may also be performed.
Minimally invasive procedures are effective alternatives to open spine surgery because spinal soft tissues are left largely undisturbed and the removal of spinal components is kept at a minimum. As a result, there is less risk for blood loss, infection, and scarring. More importantly, a patient�s recovery is typically faster and far less arduous than the type of recovery associated with open spine surgery.
Open spine surgery may still be the only option for some patients requiring emergency spine care, and not all patients will be candidates for minimally invasive spine surgery. If your physician has asked you to consider a neck or back surgery, find out whether you�re a candidate for a minimally invasive option.
About The Author: John Soland is an experienced writer who is able to offer advice and insight on a multitude of topics, including those pertaining to minimally invasive surgery. http://www.lsiscottsdale.com/
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