Herniated Disc Symptoms Can Often be Soothed Quickly with Laser Spine Surgery

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Herniated Disc Symptoms Can Often be Soothed Quickly with Laser Spine Surgery

If you’re suffering with herniated disc symptoms, you know how painful they can be. You could be experiencing pain radiating from the back, through the buttocks and down your legs to the feet. This occurs when the herniated disc - a condition that occurs when the soft cushion between two vertebrae squeezes out of place and into the spinal canal, impinging on the spinal nerve - occurs in the lower portion of your spine, called the lumbar region. If you’ve herniated a disc in the cervical portion of your spine near the neck, than you may experience pain across the shoulders, down your arms and into your fingertips. In either case, simple activities like typing at the computer or walking to the mailbox might be excruciating and exhausting. But you don’t have to resign yourself to a life of painful herniated disc symptoms. Laser Spine Institute offers a minimally invasive spine procedure for herniated disc symptoms that can have you back to your regular activities in as little as three weeks. And unlike traditional back surgery, it comes with fewer complications.

Here’s how the two types of surgery compare:

Requires 4 to 5 short outpatient visits to LSI’s office on consecutive days.
Utilizes local anesthesia and deep IV sedation.
Needs only a small incision and gently pushes muscle aside.

Usually requires a multiple-day hospital stay along with several follow-up visits.
Requires general anesthesia, which comes with increased risk for complications.
Uses a larger incision or incisions and may require cutting through muscle and/or bone, increasing the chances of infection and usually making for a longer, more painful recovery.

If you are interested in having your herniated disc treatment at LSI by one of our expert surgeons, contact us today. We’ll offer you a free review of your MRI or CT scan to determine whether or not you are a good candidate for laser spine surgery.

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