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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