These surgeries, which are popularly known as platinum surgery, are applied to patients whose vertebrae have abnormal mobility, that is, instability detected by moving x-ray films, and are called “instrumented fusion” among doctors. These are very serious surgeries in which pain is tried to be treated by placing screws and similar metal devices on painful spinal bones, welding the bones together, and thus freezing-stopping the spinal movement. When deciding on these surgeries, whether it is on the waist or on the neck; It is necessary to ensure that the surgeon who will perform the operation is an experienced surgeon and that all other surgical options are fully understood.
As a result of these surgeries, it is aimed to fuse the spinal bones to each other; Sometimes bones obtained from bone banks and sometimes from another part of the patient’s own body are also placed in the patient during the surgery. The operations in question are irreversible operations, that is, once these operations are not successful; It is almost impossible to relieve the patient’s complaints with a re-operation. In addition, the union of the bones does not allow normal waist movements, and accordingly, new problems arise in the adjacent bones and adjacent discs in the long term. So, be careful…
