As a result of classical lumbar hernia surgeries, which have been performed for about sixty years, the inability of patients to fully recover, long periods of pain, and late return to work led surgeons to seek this issue, and the microdiscectomy method was found twenty-two years ago by Caspar and Yaşargil. Microdiscectomy shortened the process of getting up and returning to work, but it could not become widespread as it required special training, special microscope and special tools. For this reason, I am disabled after hernia surgery among the public, the fear of not returning to normal continues quite widely. With the microsurgery method applied in lumbar hernia, patients can get up and walk six to seven hours after the operation and go home after staying in the hospital for one night. Thanks to this method, only an incision of one and a half to two centimeters is made and no stitches are placed on the skin surface after the surgery. Performing the operation under advanced microscopes allows the nerves in the operation area to be seen with a magnification of 25 or 40, thus reducing the risk of damaging the nerves to zero. With this method, lumbar hernia surgeries are no longer a fearful dream, and patients with lumbar hernia are prevented from being sad because of their illness. Patients can be discharged on the day of surgery or the next day, and can return to their normal lives within a week. Some patients, on the other hand, are afraid of taking narcosis, not surgery. Many have a fear of falling asleep and never waking up. With the use of epidural anesthesia in lumbar hernia surgeries, this fear has been eliminated, and now lumbar hernia surgeries have become talkative. The patients were able to chat, sing, and call their relatives easily during the operation.
What are Other Surgical Methods?
Laser hernia surgeries, outpatient treatment methods called percutaneous endoscopic discectomy, and methods of dissolving the disc with a drug called chemonucleosis are being abandoned gradually, as they only benefit patients who can recover with rest and physical therapy. As in many diseases, being late should be feared, not herniated disc. Our aim is to create a pain-free, happy society without restriction of movement.
