Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery No Open Back Surgery
This innovative minimally invasive approach is used for anterior lumbar fusion from L1 to L5. This procedure can be used to treat spondylolisthesis, foraminal stenosis, recurrent disc herniations, degenerative disc disease, pseudoarthrosis as well as degenerative scoliosis. This procedure can be performed as an outpatient basis through small incisions eliminating the need to cut muscles or dissect muscles off the bone.
Axial Lumbar Interbody Fusion
The AxiaLIF® (Axial Lumbar Interbody Fusion) System includes surgical instruments for creating a safe and reproducible pre-sacral access route to the L5 - S1 vertebral bodies. The AxiaLIF® technique features novel instrumentation to enable standard of care fusion principles, distraction and stabilization of the anterior lumbar column while mitigating the soft tissue trauma associated with traditional lumbar fusion through open surgical incisions.
Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)
Spinal infusion is a surgical technique to stabilize the spinal vertebra and the disc. Lumbar fusion is designed to create solid bone between the ajoining vertebra, eliminating any movement between the bones. This procedure is to reduce pain and nerve irritation. This procedure is to treat conditions such as degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis or recurrent disc herniations. Two one inch incision in the back are made to provide access to the disc space and to decompress nerves using a muscle splitting technique, leering muscles attached to the bone.
Anterior Cervical Disectomy & Fusion
Anterior Cervical Disectomy allows the offending disc to be surgically removed. This is through an anterior approach to relieve spinal cord or nerve pressure and alleviate pain, weakness, tingling and numbness. The anterior approach to the cervical spine is done through the front of the neck. Spinal surgeons often prefer it because it allows good access to the spine through a relatively uncomplicated pathway. The patient tends to have less wound pain from this approach.
Microdiscectomy
Microdiscectomy spine surgery is typically performed for lumbar herniated disc. This procedure is performed through a small incision ( < 1 inch) in the midline of the low back. A small portion of the bone over the nerve root and disc material from under the nerve is removed to relieve neural impingement and provide room for the nerve to heal. The remainder of the disc material is left in place to continue to act as a shock obsorber. This is primarly perfomed in patients with primarily nerve root ( leg) pain with little to no back pain.
