Back Surgery

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• Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery

  

  A is designed to stop the motion at a painful vertebral segment, which in turn should decrease pain generated from the joint. All lumbar spinal fusion surgery involves adding bone graft to an area of the spine to set up a biological response that causes the bone graft to grow...

  By: Peter F. Ullrich, Jr., MD Read More

• Back Surgery and Neck Surgery

  The primary purpose of back surgery or neck surgery is to correct an anatomical lesion in individuals who fail to show improvement with conservative treatment. For those patients who have pain, but no anatomical lesion can be identified that accounts for their pain, surgery is not an option. Surgery is useful only to change a patient’s anatomy (e.g. remove a disc herniation). There is almost never any reason to consider exploratory surgery to “look” for a cause of pain.
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• Spinal Stenosis Treatment

• Laminectomy Back Surgery Video

  This interactive video provides a step-by-step overview of a laminectomy.

• Lumbar Spine Fusion for Degenerative Disc Disease

  Lumbar spine fusion surgery is best at treating low back pain caused by severe degenerative disc disease and is an option for patients who have failed to respond to conservati...

• Postoperative care for spinal fusion surgery

  The management of activities and needs after a spinal surgery evolve with time. This article explores the typical recommendations patients can expect from a doctor.

• Lumbar Decompression Back Surgery