Spine Surgery

Open surgery versus minimally invasive spinal surgery

Traditionally, Spine surgery is done as open surgery. This involves opening the operative region with a long cut so the specialist can view and access the spinal structure. However, technology has progressed to where more spine conditions can be treated with minimally invasive techniques.

Since minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS), doesn't include long entry points, open manipulation of the muscles and tissue encompassing the spine is avoided prompting more limited operative time. As a rule, lessening intraoperative (during a medical procedure) manipulation of soft tissues brings about less postoperative pain and quicker recuperation.

Surgical methodologies

Regardless of whether open surgery or MISS, the spine is accessible from various directions. These are alluded to as surgical approaches and are clarified underneath:

  1. Anterior approach: As the name suggests, the specialist gets to the spine from the front of your body, through the abdomen.
  2. Posterior approach: A cut is made in your back.
  3. Lateral approach: The pathway to your spine is made through your side.

Common spine surgeries

Some of the conditions that lead to spine surgery and common procedures include:

Discectomy or microdiscectomy

Elimination of a herniated intervertebral plate. Along these lines, eliminates pressure from the compressed nerve. Microdiscectomy is a MISS strategy.

Laminectomy

Removal of the dainty thin plate on the back of the vertebra known as laminae to expand space inside the spinal waterway and alleviate pressure.

Laminotomy

Elimination of the vertebral curve (lamina) that covers the spinal cord. A laminotomy eliminates less bone than a laminectomy.

Both laminectomy and laminotomy are decompression methods. "Decompression" typically implies tissue compressing a spinal nerve is eliminated.

Foraminotomy

Elimination of bone or tissue in the pathway where nerve roots branch off the spinal cord and leave the spinal segment.

Disc replacement

As an option in contrast to fusion, the harmed disc is supplanted with an artificial one.

Spinal fusion

A surgical method is utilized at best spine injury hospitals in Guntur to join 2 vertebrae. Spinal fusion may incorporate the utilization of bone graft with or without instrumentation. There are various kinds of bone grafts, for example, your bone (autograft) and donor bone (allograft). Consult Dr.Giridhar Boyapati who is the spine specialist in Guntur for computer-assisted surgeries or spinal cord disorder treatment at an orthopedic hospital.

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