Article 17 – Surgical And Non-Surgical Treatment for Slipped Disc
Many patients with back pain, leg pain, or weakness of the lower extremity muscles are diagnosed with a herniated disc.
The treatment of a herniated disc depends on a number of factors, including:
• symptoms which the patient
• age of the patient
• Activities of the patient
• The presence of worsening symptoms
Non-surgical treatment:
If you are looking for non-surgical treatment of patients is still unbearable pain, or if there is evidence of neurological deficit (eg weakness in the calf), then we can recommend surgery for the treatment of disc herniation. Non-surgical treatments can include the use of electrical stimulation, pain medication, hot and cold compresses, a decrease of activity, which typically causes pain, acupuncture, and visits to a chiropractor. Some of the more common surgical procedure called laminotomy, Laminektomie, discectomy and micro discectomy.
Surgical treatment:
Nucleoplasty is a newly developed procedure to decompress herniated disc discs. It is sometimes also called percutaneous discectomy. This procedure is minimally invasive, with a super-thin catheter for accessing the bulging disc.
Spine fusion is rarely necessary when a disc is herniated disc for the first time. If necessary, the space left by the removed disc can be filled with a bone graft – a small piece of bone usually from the hip of the patient. The bone graft or bone substitute is used to fuse the spine together. In some cases, especially instrumentation (such as rods or screws) can be used to help promote fusion and to stability in the spine.
The cost of treatment is much less and very safe compared to the other with a high success rate.