Lumbar Surgery
Gentle Lumbar Surgery at Laser Spine Institute: A 5-Day Process That Relieves Pain
When you are dealing with lower back pain, it might seem like it has robbed you of years of your life. Unable to care for your loved ones, exercise, run errands, or work, you want the fastest and most effective lumbar surgery for your lower back pain because you are eager for your life to return to normal as soon as possible.
At Laser Spine Institute, we understand your desire to get your life back. For you and the thousands of others suffering with lower back pain, LSI has streamlined our minimally invasive lumbar surgery into a 5-day process that can have you back at home and experiencing relief from your pain in less than a week.
Lumbar Surgery & the Minimally Invasive Alternatives Available at Laser Spine Institute
If you have tried medication, injections, chiropractor visits, and similar treatments for your lower back pain and have not experienced lasting relief, lumbar surgery is often the next step. When you’re dealing with something as serious as surgery, Laser Spine Institute hopes you will explore all of the options available before you make a final decision.
At LSI, we believe that our patients deserve nothing but the best treatments for their back pain. For this reason, we are dedicated to offering the most innovative lumbar surgery and other procedures at a state-of-the-art facility where patients receive unparalleled care and compassion.
Lumbar Surgery at Laser Spine Institute: Why Laser Surgery is Preferred Treatment for Many Patients
Lumbar pain is something that must be experienced to truly understand the devastating effect it can have on a person’s life. Originating in the lower back and often traveling to the legs, lumbar pain can halt your everyday routine and lifestyle. If it gets bad enough, lumbar pain can make you a prisoner of your bed or couch, barely able to get up and take care of your own basic needs.
Once lower back pain has reached this point - and conservative treatments like medication and exercise have not provided lasting relief - lumbar surgery is the recommended next step. In the past, the only option for lumbar surgery involved open back procedures. Not only do these procedures mean a long incision, hours of general anesthesia, and the risk of infection, but they also can mean a recovery period lasting a year or more.
Lumbar Surgery at Laser Spine Institute: Am I a Candidate?
Lower back pain, also known as lumbar pain, can seize you at any time and leave you practically incapacitated. The pain in your lower back may wake you up throughout the night so that you always feel exhausted. Lumbar pain also may travel from your lower back to your legs and feet, making it very difficult to stand, sit, bend over, or walk.
If you are tired of the grip of lower back pain, lumbar surgery might be recommended to ease your symptoms. After speaking to your doctor, however, you may have winced when you were told that lumbar surgery could involve spinal fusion - a bone graft that halts motion in the painful area of your spine. Spinal fusion not only limits your mobility and puts stress on the rest of your spine; it’s also an invasive procedure involving a hospital stay, long recovery, hours of general anesthesia, and other risks.
Lumbar Puncture
The reasons for having a lumbar puncture procedure may be to perform analysis of cells or to relieve intracranial pressure. Intracranial pressure is pressure exerted by the cranium (skull) on brain tissue…
Lumbar Fusion
Lumbar spinal fusion is a surgery performed to fuse two vertebra together to provide more stability for patients suffering from degenerative disc disease and other condition that cause instability in the spine…
Lumbar Decompression
For those who suffer from back or spine conditions, this form of surgery may be recommended. Common conditions that may target you as a candidate for lumbar decompression may be spinal stenosis or disc herniation…
Lumbar Traction
Lumbar traction is a form of treatment for spinal conditions and has proven to be an effective mechanism offering patients pain relief and increased mobility. While the long term effects of lumbar traction are still inclusive, the short term benefits are encouraging for suffering patients.
Lumbar Back Surgery
There are different forms of lower back surgery, however before describing these forms of surgery, it will be helpful to understand the lumbar spine anatomy.
Inversion Therapy
Inversion therapy is an age old technique that has been modified to reflect modern medicine. The purpose of inversion therapy is to overcome the effects of gravity. Both gravity and muscle imbalance cause the vertebrae to compress causing pressure on the discs
Lumbar Surgery Alternative
To understand why surgery is such a recommended form of treatment, it is important to understand the cause of lumbar spinal stenosis and its effect on you. We will describe how this condition develops as well as signs and symptoms and an outline of the procedures: lumbar foraminotomy and lumbar laminotomy.
Laminectomy Risks
A lumbar laminectomy is similar to a microdecompression and is performed to correct pain being caused by nerve compression. This lumbar surgery is designed to remove the portion of the bone or disc material impinging the nerve root, increasing the space available.
Conditions Treatable With Lumbar Surgery
If your back condition progresses far enough and does not heal through conventional treatment, lumbar spine surgery may be recommended. Let’s take a look at two conditions that can possibly progress this far.
Lumbar Surgery Recovery
Several days after your surgery, the dressing that you have been wearing over your incision will be removed. Stitches or sutures that are under your skin will dissolve on their own as natural healing occurs.