Lumbar hernia, which manifests itself with pain, makes daily life unbearable and reduces the quality of life, can be treated with many methods instead of surgery. Physical therapy methods relieve lumbar hernia patients. However, there are some situations that require surgery and patients should not be late…
Surgical treatment of lumbar hernia is seen as a last resort all over the world. However; “Surgery can be the first and only remedy in cases such as loss of strength, severe pain, and the presence of severe disc fragments detected in MR images.
Assoc. Dr. Volkan Aydın said, “As a result of some misunderstandings, patients who need surgery due to herniated disc think that surgery is the last resort, and that they are late, even though they need surgery, and that they have foot paralysis, urinary incontinence, loss of sexual power, which should never happen under today’s conditions. indicated that the defects had developed.
According to experts, permanent losses are inevitable in patients who are not treated in time. Assoc. Dr. Volkan Aydın says:
“Of course not every hernia patient is in this situation and 85-90% of herniated disc patients can be treated with non-surgical methods. If necessary, the patient should not be afraid to make the decision of surgery in line with the doctor’s recommendations. Today, lumbar hernia surgeries are a surgery that takes 15-30 minutes in experienced hands with minimal risks, with the microdiscectomy technique, which is now accepted as the gold standard in the surgical treatment of lumbar and neck hernia all over the world. After this surgery, patients can stand up 4 hours later and be discharged on the same day in the evening or the next morning.
In microdiscectomy (microsurgery) technique; After an incision of only 2-2.5 cm, the nerves in the operation area are enlarged 20-30 times under the microscope, the hernia part pressing on the nerves is removed without the risk of damaging the nerves. .
After developing technology and experience, I will be disabled after hernia surgery, the fear of not returning to normal should be abandoned and it should not be late for surgery, especially when necessary.
To repeat; Despite this advance in technology and surgical techniques, which patients should be afraid of, despite the need for surgery, they are late in making a decision due to various fears; it causes the development of defects such as foot paralysis, urinary incontinence, loss of sexual power…
