Pain-Free Life After Failed Back Surgery
This post-surgical state, Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (FBSS), involves neuropathic, or nerve pain, which does not respond to pain relievers or conventional treatments. Additional open spinal surgeries rarely correct the problem. But patients considering spinal surgery do have options that let the patients, not the pain, take charge of their lives.
In an open spinal surgery, doctors create a large incision and often need to detach muscles to see the spine. Arthroscopic surgeries, in which surgeons use cameras to see into patients' bodies, prove much less invasive.
Even if a patient has had previous back surgery that has resulted in FBSS, these advanced arthroscopic techniques may offer a solution. Until recently, repeated "open" surgeries rarely relieved FBSS pain. But medical developments have made great strides, allowing FBSS patients to, once again, live their lives pain-free.
These advances over traditional open and fusion spine surgeries allow for greater precision, faster healing and less damage to healthy tissue. Advanced spine surgeries today can employ the smallest incision possible to correct problems attributed to FBSS with patented instrumentation and methods.
The patient, under local anesthesia, is alert and able to communicate with the surgeon throughout the procedure. The result can be far less traumatic to the muscles and tissues, resulting in minimal blood loss and faster recovery.
Patients who have had "open" laminectomy or fusion surgeries that did not relieve their pain now have renewed hope with these gentle, carefully controlled outpatient procedures, which are performed sequentially. Called The Bonati Procedures, these advanced surgical spine procedures were developed by, and are performed only at, The Bonati Institute by surgical teams that have performed more than 20,000 of these advanced procedures.
To learn more about the Bonati Procedures, visit www.bonati.com or call (800) 298-7513.
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