Unlike the other approaches to lumbar disc surgery, laparoscopic discectomy has the advantage that extruded, and even some migrated fragments can be removed. Criteria for stereotactic lumbar ...

In a brief statement on social media, Woods described it as a microdecompression surgery of the lumbar spine for nerve ...

“A bone kind of popped out and the joint kind of went out of place, but I put it back in,” Woods said. Five months later, he had to go through a second microdiscectomy surgery on his back to ...

Therefore, this study aimed to explore the CE of PTED compared with open microdiscectomy among patients with lumbar disc herniation from a societal perspective at 12 months after surgery. Among others ...

Neurosurgeon to the Spinal Injuries Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital and ... Such procedures include open discectomy, microdiscectomy and endoscopic percutaneous discectomy. In some situations, in ...

Dr. Daniel Sciubba, senior vice president of neurosurgery at Northwell, performed the first surgery ... minimally invasive spinal procedures, such as spinal decompression, discectomy and ...

Dr. J. Alex Sielatycki, a fellowship-trained spine surgeon at (PMC) in Meeker, started performing surgeries using the ...

He had a microdiscectomy in September to alleviate pain down his legs, his sixth surgery on his lower back. Charlie Woods, left, watches his father Tiger Woods, right, watches during the final ...

facet hypertrophy Percutaneous laser discectomy Same as standard microdiscectomy History of previous lumbar surgery, workman's compensation, stenosis, facet hypertrophy, free fragment Artificial ...