Don't let a lumbar hernia interfere with your daily life!
Using the latest technologies developed, microdiscectomy can be performed using a microsurgical technique in patients with lumbar hernia that cannot be healed without the administration of general anesthesia.
Now you can get rid of the back pain that makes your daily life intolerable and even change your life while talking on the phone or reading a magazine during surgery.
Almost all of us have experienced back pain in our lifetime. Usually, we don't go to the doctor until the pain becomes intolerable and we try to treat ourselves, with remedies overheard here and there.
However, today, thanks to certain techniques developed with the help of technology, even the most advanced forms of low back and neck pain can be treated through much simpler methods.
Our spine is loaded 5 million times
Low back pain and disc herniation are common problems that can impact many people.
The lumbar region represents the part of the human spine that is stressed the most, and which the most common disorders connected to the musculoskeletal system stem from. Remember, a person loads their spine an average of 5 million times in their lifetime. These movements cannot be restricted or not performed at all. Every single movement, such as bending and sitting in a standing or squatting position, involves strain. We all put strain on our spine with every movement except lying down. For this reason, people around the age of 70-80 inevitably suffer from disc herniation. In short, low back pain is an inevitable part of human life.
What is a disc herniation?
One of the most common discomforts caused by this unavoidable strain on the body is disc herniation. As a result of detailed studies on this subject, both in the country and abroad, the only way to avoid the formation of a hernia is to understand the mechanism of its formation. It can be described as a condition that occurs as a result of the bulging of the structure defined as a disc, which absorbs the load on the spine between the two vertebrae and ensures its even distribution to the spinal cord and/or to the nerve roots. The method of treatment depends on the course and stage of the disease.
Symptoms of lumbar hernia
Pain in the lower back and legs, numbness in the legs and feet, and weakness, and in some cases burning and pins and needles sensation, difficulty in urination or urine leakage may also occur. Urine leakage is a finding that requires special attention, especially if accompanied by low back pain. There are different ways to treat a disc herniation.
4 main methods of treatment
The treatment principles can be summarized under the following 4 main headings:
- Bed rest
- Taking medication
- Physiotherapy and exercise
- Surgical treatment with modern technology
Bed rest, medication intake and physiotherapy are particularly important for immature hernias and usually have a positive effect. In more advanced stages of the disease, surgical treatment with modern technology is applied.
Is it possible to get rid of back pain in half an hour?
The treatment of lumbar hernia and discopathy is performed safely, using microdiscectomy with microsurgical technique, which is performed under epidural anesthesia, without falling asleep, by the method of screwing.
In the screwing technique, which is used by a handful of surgeons in Turkey, the patient does not undergo general anesthesia. Above all, patients should choose their doctor well, as the microsurgical technique requires serious equipment and experienced surgeons. Since this technique has only been known for 15-20 years, many doctors with longer experience do not perform this surgical intervention, but apply the classic discectomy to their patients, which is already obsolete.
The end of your fear of operations!
We know that many patients suffer for years because they are afraid of surgery. However, the method of microdiscectomy and epidural anesthesia solves all these problems.
Being under epidural anesthesia, the patient can talk during the surgery, ask the doctor questions, watch the surgery on a monitor and even talk to their loved ones on the phone.
Epidural anesthesia is administered in the lumbar region with only one needle, which eliminates patients' phobia of being operated on while unconscious, unable to wake up again.
After this operation, patients return to their normal life the very next day, due to the fact that the wound is minimized, it does not significantly damage the bone tissue, everything is under complete control and after a few weeks, sports can be practiced actively.
Advantages of microdiscectomy
It should be noted that the main purpose of microdiscectomy is the same as in the classic disc herniation operation, but it is performed with the help of more modern technologies.
The advantages are the following:
- The operation is performed entirely under a microscope and is recorded on video.
- It is possible to work on a much smaller field using the advantages of microscope magnification.
- The surgery is performed within 1214 millimeters, in a way that the patient does not feel anything.
- Because the intervention is performed on a small area, recovery is faster and postoperative problems associated with surgical treatment are much fewer or absent with this method.
The success rate of surgical treatment is about 97%