Back Surgery

Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatment options of failed back surgery syndrome, and discover effective strategies to prevent post-surgical pain.

After back surgery there are several lifestyle habits that will aid in the recovery process, such as avoiding smoking, getting enough continuous sleep, and eating nutritious food.

A microdiscectomy is a minimally invasive procedure that removes the herniated disc and leaves all other joints, ligaments and muscles are left intact

Kyphoplasty surgery is an option designed to treat pain and possible deformity caused by osteoporosis fractures in the spine.

Kyphoplasty is an elective surgery designed to reduce or eliminate back pain in people with vertebral compression fractures; avoid an increase in spinal deformity; and restore spinal alignment.

Kyphoplasty is a minimally invasive procedure that is performed through a small skin puncture. A typical kyphoplasty procedure takes 1 to 2 hours per vertebral level to complete.

In addition to general surgery risks, complications specific to kyphoplasty include bone cement leakage, paralysis, pulmonary embolism, and allergic reactions to the bone cement or other agents.

Risk factors such as smoking, associated health conditions and previous surgeries may delay or prevent the success of a lumbar laminectomy surgery. Complications associated with this procedure are usually rare.

While lumbar decompression will often relieve the patient's leg pain and back pain directly after the surgery, the pain may last longer for some patients until the nerve root heals.

Lumbar discectomy, both microdiscectomy and endoscopic (percutaneous) discectomy, was the first type of spine surgery to be commonly performed on an outpatient basis.