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Incredible Procedure Known As Laser Laminectomy

May 27th, 2008 by Andrea Beartoes

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by Andrea Beartoes

Center for Disease control estimates that nearly 2.4 million Americans, suffer from chronic back pain at any given time. The money spent to treat back pain costed approximately $75 billion directly or indirectly. Back pain is next to flue in America debilitating and results in loss of work and income.

The individual suffering from back pain has to deal with emotional and chronic physical pain. The pain can be a lifetime experience, unless surgical intervention is recommended by trained physicians. Pain killers, analgesics, and steroidal applications are just a band aid to a chronic condition. Laser laminectomy is a new procedure done to reduce chronic condition in patients suffering from back pain. Laminectomy refers to a procedure done on vertebra resulting in partial or complete removal of the lamina. Lamina is the wing like part of the vertebra. The back bone is also called vertebrae. The spinal cord traverses through the vertebra.

A condition when patients suffer from severe pack pain is called spinal stenosis. It’s a condition where the affected nerves that are situated around the spinal column are compressed. It can be caused by injury, aging or a tumor. This procedure was pioneered by Victor Alexander Haden Horsley in 1887. During this procedure a complete or partial removal or shaping of the spinal disc is attempted to treat herniated disc.

Symptoms that are commonly observed in patients are chronic low back pain which further leads to the feeling of anguish and immobility. Current medical methods of treating the low lumbar back pain by herniated discs is either by surgery or administering of pain killers. In order to prevent suffering and emotional stress an invasive procedure is recommended. This procedure is done under general anesthesia. The patient is first admitted to a hospital and anesthesia is administered later a small incision is made.

An alternate method of treatment is laser laminectomy. “Slipped disc” in medical terms is Herniated disc. Herniation disc occurs when the spinal nerves are affected by the bulging inter vertebral disc. This results in pain on the left side of the lower back. The aim of surgical laminectomy is to try to relieve the pressure put on the nerves that surround the spinal column; this once reduced relives the pain and allows for physical reduction of the protruding lamina. Patients who have received such surgery need a long recovery phase after the surgery. This entails pain medication, physical therapy and exercise during this period.

Laser laminectomy is a novel and minimally invasive procedure and approach to treating patients suffering from back pain. This condition of Back pain is ancient and can be traced back to ancient Egyptians and Greek times.

Laser laminectomy entails using a leaser beam to slice part of the effected nerve or lamina to relive pain in the back. Huston laser laminectomy can attempt this procedure for herniated discs which is minimally invasive. Less invasive is medical slang for a procedure that does not need anesthesia. Anastasia is required in surgical laminectomy the patient is put under Anastasia before the procedure is performed. The surgical option is invasive and expensive, and carries the risk of occurring again and also latter affecting the neck.

The three C’s that plague the American workforce in regards to treatment for back pain is that is it costly, chronic and complicated. American geriatric population is also affected by chronic back pain and consideration should be given to potential treatments such as laser laminectomy.

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