Overall Benefits of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

➥ Surgical treatment of the degenerative disc disease has evolved from traditional open spine surgery to minimally invasive spine surgery including endoscopic spine surgery.

➥ The lens of the endoscope is at the end so it is as if the doctor has eyes inside the patient’s body, allowing them to see the abnormality clearly and to cut out problem areas without having to cut out muscles which are still in working condition.

➥ Advantages of endoscopic spine surgeries are less tissue dissection and muscle trauma, reduced blood loss, less damage to the epidural blood supply and consequent epidural fibrosis and scarring, reduced hospital stay, early functional recovery and improvement in the quality of life & better cosmesis.

➥ As the Transforaminal endoscopic spine surgery is done under local anesthesia, surgery of the patients who are unfit or risky for General aneasthesia, Obese patients, patients with comorbid conditions like renal failure, Ischemic heart disease etc. can be performed without any extra risk or complexity.

➥ With precise indication and proper diagnosis the endoscopic spine surgery can give better result than traditional open spine surgery.

➥ Initially, endoscopic technique was restricted to the lumbar region for disc herniations but now, the endoscopic techniques are using in spinal degenerative diseases of lumber, thoracic and cervical region including spinal canal stenosis and endoscopic fusion surgeries

➥ Endoscopic spine surgery can play important role in the treatment of adolescent disc herniations especially for the persons who engage in the competitive sports and the athletes where less tissue trauma, cosmesis and early functional recovery is desirable.