With the latest techniques developed, Microdiscectomy surgery can be performed with microsurgical technique for patients with lumbar hernia that cannot walk without general whole body narcosis.
You can now get rid of back pain that makes your life unbearable and even change your life while you are talking on the phone or reading your magazine during the surgery.
There is almost no one of us who has not had low back pain in his life. Usually, we do not go to the doctor until our pain is unbearable, we try to treat our disease ourselves with hearsay treatment methods.
However, today, thanks to some techniques developed with the help of technology, even the most advanced forms of low back and neck pain can be treated with very simple methods.
Our spine is loaded 5 million times
Low back pain and herniated disc are common health problems that affect the majority of the population.
The lumbar region is the area where the human spine is the most loaded and the most common disorders related to the movement system occur. Remember that every person who lives an average life loads his spine about 5 million times in his lifetime. It is never possible for a person to restrict his movements and get rid of it. Movements such as bending, standing, and squatting all mean loading. We are loaded on the spine in all movements except lying down. For this reason, it is inevitable to encounter a herniated disc in people aged 70-80 years. In short, low back pain is an inevitable part of human life.
What is herniated disc?
One of the most common ailments brought on by this inevitable body load is herniated disc. As a result of extensive research on the subject in the country and abroad, the way to get rid of hernia is to understand the mechanism of hernia formation. It defines it as a disorder that occurs as a result of the bulging of the structure, which is defined as the disc that absorbs the load on the spine between two vertebrae and ensures its equal distribution, towards the spinal cord and/or nerve roots. The method of treatment varies according to the course of the disease and the progression of the disease.
Symptoms of lumbar hernia;
Low back pain, pain in the legs, numbness in the legs and feet, weakness, rarely burning and pricking, inability to urinate or incontinence. Urinary incontinence is a finding that needs attention especially when it is accompanied by low back pain. The treatment options for lumbar hernia are various.
4 basic treatment methods
Treatment principles can be summarized under 4 main headings. These;
1 -Bed Rest
2- Medication
3- Physical Therapy and exercise
4- Surgical Treatment with Advanced Techniques
Bed rest, drug use and physical therapy are very It is essential in undeveloped hernias and generally responds positively. In more advanced diseases, surgical treatment is applied with advanced techniques.
It is possible to get rid of your low back pain in half an hour.
In the treatment of lumbar hernia, microdiscectomy with microsurgical technique, and lumbar slippage can be safely treated with epidural anesthesia without sleeping with screwing method.
In the screwing technique, which can be performed by a small number of surgeons in Turkey, the patient is not knocked out under general anesthesia. First of all, patients should be selective about the doctor. Because microsurgical technique requires serious equipment and experienced surgeons. Since this technique was not known until the last 15-20 years, many career doctors do not perform this surgical intervention and apply the classical discectomy, which has become history, to their patients.
End the phobia of surgery!
We know that many patients suffer for years just because they are afraid of surgery. However, the method of Microdiscectomy with Epidural Anesthesia eliminates all these concerns. Because with epidural anesthesia, the patient can talk during the surgical intervention, ask questions to the doctor, watch the operation on the monitor and even talk to his relatives on the phone.
Epidural anesthesia is applied to the lumbar region with only a single needle, and it also eliminates the patients’ phobia of going into surgery in an unconscious state and not being able to wake up again.
After this operation, the patient returns to his normal life the next day due to factors such as the minimization of the amount of wound, the lack of damage to the bone tissue, and full control of the field, and after a few weeks he becomes active in sports.
Advantages of Microdiscectomy
It should be noted that the main purpose of the microdiscectomy method is the same as the classical herniated disc surgery, but it is performed with more advanced techniques.
Its advantages are as follows:
– The operation is performed completely under the microscope and the whole operation is video-recorded,
– It is possible to work in a much smaller field by utilizing the magnification and wide field of view of the microscope,
– Surgical intervention is performed within 12–14 millimeters and in a way that the patient does not feel,
— Since the intervention takes place from a small area, both the recovery is faster and the post-operative complications related to the surgical intervention are much less or not at all with this method.
— Surgical success is around 97%.
