The overall goal of cervical spine surgery is to relieve numbness, tingling, weakness, pain stop or prevent abnormal movement in the spine and restore nerve function. Your cervical spine surgeon Los Angeles will first remove a disc or bone and fuse the vertebrates together with a bone graft. This will be done by either taking a bone from your body (autograph) or a bone from the bone bank (allograft). Sometimes instrumentation is used that is when metal plates, screws, wires are used to stabilize the spine. When the vertebrates have then been stabilized the abnormal motion, pain or numbness is stopped and function is restored to the spinal nerves. Of course that this kind of spine surgery Los Angeles is not the only one available there is minimally invasive spine surgery that is only performed for three different back problems
Most spinal surgery Los Angeles procedures require a long incision which leaves a very long scare and about a weeks hospital stay and around of year of no work. Minimally invasive spine surgery also known as the key whole surgery uses a thin, telescope-like instrument called an endoscope it is inserted through small incisions. The endoscope is attached to a tiny video camera a little bit smaller than a dime which gives the doctors view of the inside of the patients on a television screen. Small operating instruments can then be passes through one or more half inch incisions to fix the problem never opening the patient fully. After the procedure is done the small incisions are closed up and heal within a few months the incisions are barely visible.
To really understand these surgeries you must understand what your back looks like. The spinal column surrounds and protects the spinal cord. Your spinal column is made up of 24 bones called vertebrates plus the sacrum and the coccyx. The sacrum is a large triangular shaped bone at the bottom of the spine and at the upper and back part of the pelvic cavity it is inserted like a wedge between two hip bones its top part connects with the last lumbar vertebrate and the bottom with the coccyx which is the tail bone. If you’re in need of a consultation please call (818)243-0499
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