Back pain surgery
|
Back pain Microchapters |
|
Diagnosis |
|---|
|
Treatment |
|
Lecture |
|
Case Studies |
|
Back pain surgery On the Web |
|
American Roentgen Ray Society Images of Back pain surgery |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Zehra Malik, M.B.B.S[2]
Overview
Surgery is rarely needed for back pain. Surgery may be required in patients with lumbar disc herniation, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, scoliosis, compression fracture. Surgical procedure include, diskectomy, laminectomy, joint fusion, artificial disks.
Surgery
Surgery may sometimes be appropriate for patients with:
- Spinal fusion: Indicated in patients with non-specific chronic pain due to degenerative disc disease resitant to medical therapy.
- Laminectomy: Patients with spinal stenosis may benefit from this procedure by enlarging the spinal canal or removing bone spurs. This relieves the pain caused due to nerve compression.
- Foraminotomy: This nerve decompression procedure enlarges the area on the sides of a vertebrae where spinal nerve exits the spinal canal.
- Diskectomy: The herniated portion of intervertebral disc that causes nerve pain and irritation is removed.
- Disk replacement: Damaged intervertebral disc is replaced by an artificial disc.
- Interlaminar implant: A U-shaped device is placed in between two vertebrae in order to keep the intervertebral space open to relieve nerve compression.
- Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty