By Decompressing The Spinal Canal The Patient' S Symptoms Of Back And/ Or Leg Pain Will Resolve

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The surgical treatment of spinal stenosis - if you are unable to perform normal daily activities because your spinal stenosis symptoms are so severe, or the quality of your lifestyle is being affected, surgery for your spinal stenosis may be considered. Although surgery for spinal stenosis is most often elective, if your symptoms are not able to be relieved through conservative methods, surgery for your spinal stenosis may be recommended by your physician. Surgery for your spinal stenosis may also be considered if over time your symptoms have become more severe and intolerable.

Most experts will agree that surgery has good results for relieving the pain in your lower extremities associated with severe spinal stenosis symptoms. - this procedure is done by surgically cutting into the back. Traditional open back surgery, decompressive laminectomy: The bone spurs and/ or thickened tissue that is narrowing the spinal canal and causing the symptoms by squeezing the spinal cord or nerve roots are removed through the process of a laminectomy. With this procedure, and depending on the patient' s health and the extent of the surgery, the patient may not be able to return their normal activities for up to several months. Foraminotomy is a medical operation used to relieve pressure on nerves that are being compressed by the intervertebral foramen, the space in the vertebra where a nerve root exits the spinal canal. Minimally invasive techniques: Foraminotomy: This is an arthroscopic approach to open up the foramen without the need for general anesthesia in an outpatient surgical setting. A foraminotomy is performed to relieve the symptoms of nerve root compression in cases where the foramen is being compressed by bone, scar tissue, disc, or excessive ligament development and results in a pinched nerve.

A series of tubes of increasing size are placed over this first tube, one at a time, to slowly create a small opening to the spine. - the process of a foraminotomy: after a local anesthetic is administered, a small incision is made and a round depuy tube is put into the incision. That allows the surgeon to perform foraminotomies with minimal damage to the surrounding muscles. The last tube is about 18 millimeters in diameter( about as big as a small marker) and through this working tube the laser, suction, camera, irrigation and other surgical instruments are inserted. The muscles are pushed out of the way and are not torn or cut. Laminotomy: This is an arthroscopic approach to laminotomies to open up the spinal canal, without the need for general anesthesia, in an outpatient surgical setting.

A laminotomy is also a procedure used to remove the ligamentum flavum, a ligament in the spinal canal that can thicken to the point where it is actually compressing on the spinal cord, attributing to spinal stenosis. - a laminotomy is a surgical procedure that is used to relieve pressure off the spinal canal for the exiting nerve root and spinal cord, increasing the amount of space available for the neural tissue and thus releasing the nerve( s) . Through a laminotomy, the ligament can be removed, therefore opening up the spinal canal and releasing the nerve( s) . By decompressing the spinal canal the patient' s symptoms of back and/ or leg pain will resolve. Some patients will feel immediate relief during the laminotomy as the nerve( s) are released. Patients are generally encouraged to take a long walk the afternoon or evening of their laminotomy procedure.