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Who Should Consider Help?

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery is specifically designed for patients with uncomplicated, herniated discs accompanied by the following:

    • Pain radiating from the spine downward to the arms or legs
    • Symptoms including sensory loss, tingling, numbness, muscle weakness, and severe headache
    • Abnormal CT or MRI scans that show disc herniation
    • No improvement of symptoms after six to eight weeks of conservative therapy
    • Abnormal electromyogram study

The procedure is not designed for:

    • Evidence of acute or progressive degenerative spinal cord diseases or urologic or vascular pathologies mimicking a herniated disc
    • Evidence of advanced spondylosis (significant bony spurs) with severe disc space narrowing,diffuse annular bulging and other extreme spine irregularities
    • Evidence of spinal stenosis or large bony spurs
    • Evidence of a large extruded disc or a free fragment or leakage of disc material
    • Existence of other pathologies or conditions such as fractures, tumors, pregnancy or active infections

 

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