Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS)

1. Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS)

2.  Traditionally, spine surgery was conducted through the ?opensurgery? way. This method involved a long incision which enabled the surgeon to observe and access the specific anatomy with ease.  This process was extremely helpful as the entire anatomy was approachable for the surgeon.  But the open surgery method had drawbacks as well. Hence, with technological advancements, better methods of surgery were developed and this resulted in the emergence of minimally invasive surgical technique.

3.  Long incision method damaged a wider area and affected more muscles resulting in more pain for the patient after the surgery.  On the contrary, minimally invasive surgical technique avoids long incision and eliminates the risk of damage to muscles that surround the spine.  This ensures that the patient goes through less muscle damage and there is lesser pain after the surgery.

4. When is minimally invasive surgery indicated?  Minimally invasive surgery is an alternative to open surgery. Hence, the indications for both are same.  This surgery is done to relieve those painful symptoms of back pain which medications and physical therapy fail to cure.  Also, to perform this surgery it is crucial that the doctor knows the precise source of pain.  Examples of such cases are spinal stenosis and herniated disk.

5.  There are several techniques for performing minimally invasive surgery but all of them have one common feature- Smaller incisions resulting in fewer muscle damage.  Procedures such as spinal fusion and lumbar decompression can be treated with this surgery.  The process of decompression removes few portions of herniated disk or bone so that the pressure on spinal nerves is removed.  In the spinal fusion process, small bones of spine known as vertebrae are fused together. This allows them to heal and become a tough single bone.

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