Spinal Fusion Surgery Types, Why It's Done ?

Medical professionals in India have recently given a new hope of life to all those patients suffering from chronic lower back pain  and who have not responded to physical therapy or  medical intervention. Most low back pain can be effectively managed with a variety of helpful interventions. Like Physical therapy, weight loss, smoking cessation and  medication  injections.

In case the above treatments do not work, the  best long-term outcome could be achieved with a Lumbar Fusion.

Lumbar Spinal Fusion (Arthrodesis)

Lumbar spinal fusion is surgery to join, or fuse, two or more vertebrae in the low back.

Spinal fusion is major surgery, usually lasting several hours. There are different methods of spinal fusion.

• Bone is taken from the pelvic bone or from a bone bank. The bone is used to make a bridge between vertebrae that are next to each other. This bone graft helps new bone grow.
• Metal implants are usually used to hold the vertebrae together until new bone grows between them.

Doctors at MedWorld India affiliated Hospitals in India have expertise and vast experience in performing  Spinal Fusion - an Advanced minimally invasive surgery  is designed to stop the motion at a painful vertebral segment, which in turn should decrease pain generated from the joint. A severely degenerated disc between two vertebral bones or to a "slippage" of the spine bones (which is referred to as "spondylolisthesis"). Slippage of the bones results in misalignment of the spine and possible entrapment of the spinal nerves.

There are many approaches to lumbar spinal fusion surgery, and all involve adding bone graft to an area of the spine to set up a biological response that causes the bone graft to grow between the two vertebral elements and create a fusion, thereby stopping the motion at that segment. Other circumstances exist in which a fusion may best treat the source of back and leg pain. A lumbar fusion may be recommended for diagnoses such as a recurrent disc herniation, scoliosis or curvature of the spine, or for a traumatic injury of the spine such as a fracture. All of these different conditions can cause back and leg pain.

The procedure is performed in an advanced surgical center with Intra-operative MRI  guidance. The patient is monitored with an electrocardiogram, blood pressure cuff and blood oxygen-monitoring device.

Medical evaluation includes a physical exam. Diagnostic tests such as MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), steroid injection or discography may be conducted to diagnose and locate the symptomatic disc herniation and determine if the procedure is appropriate.

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