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Help for an Aching Spine with Laser Surgery
When you have back or neck problems that don’t resolve on their own in a short time, or they cause pain that radiates down your limbs, the problem is probably with your spine. Laser surgery—the use of a laser and other small tools to repair tissue—is a great way to address those problems when more conservative treatments haven’t worked. Its nimble precision allows a surgeon to target the problem without causing any damage to the vital spinal cord. And because endoscopy—the use of a small tube to access the surgery site—is used in conjunction with the laser, minimal damage is sustained by the skin, muscle, bone and other tissue that protects the spinal cord.
That means the recovery time for laser spine surgery, about two weeks to return to normal activities, is quick by comparison to traditional surgery. Those procedures often require large incisions through skin and muscle that can take months to recover from. Laser surgeons only need a small incision through which to insert the tube, and they carefully push muscle aside to avoid damaging it.
At Laser Spine Institute we’ve had phenomenal results treating a wide range of conditions with this method, including herniated discs, bone spurs in the neck, foraminal stenosis, facet disease, sciatica, degenerative disc disease, and more. More than 85% of our patients have reported that they feel relief from their symptoms within three months of laser spine surgery and some have even said they feel better before the surgery is even finished.
If that’s the type of relief you’d like to get from your neck or back pain, contact LSI today. We’ll review your MRI or CT scan today to determine if you are a good candidate for laser spine surgery.