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Originally Posted by billethkid
minimally invasive by Bono and Ronzo is operating through a one inch long incision. Minimal blood loss. No cutting of muscle tissue. Almost no infection. Out the door the same day. Back to driving a car after 24 hours. Swing a golf club after one week.
Traditional surgery is a minimum of 6 inches long by 4 inch wide opening in the body to get at the same spot. Significantly higher infection exposure. Higher blood loss. Two to 4 days in the hospital. Weeks of recovery with physical therapy.
Not selling anything here. I have been researching the options for some time.
Laser repair is not the same as minimally invasive and is more invasive.
If one needs to have a spinal repair surgery (or any other surgery for that matter) then they become very motivated to spend the time doing the research and understanding all the options.
And if one is fortunate enough to have a problem that is not urgent then take the time......like maybe wait for BioSpine Institute to get medicare approval....which they will.
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I've had three disc operations and they were all done with a one inch incision. The first was done at Massachusetts General Hospital and the others were done at the New England Baptist Spine Center. NE Baptist is ranked as one of the top orthopedic hospitals in the world. People come from all over the world to be treated there. Jack Nicklaus had a hip replacement there. Larry Bird had his back operated on there and the King of Saudi Arabia was being treated there at the same time as I.
My surgeons told me that almost no one is doing basic discectomies or lamanectomies using 4-6 inch decisions any more. My first surgery was in 1989.
After my first surgery, I stayed overnight and came home the next day. I was up and walking within 30 minutes of coming out of the anesthesia. The second two surgeries, I was home the same day.
Big incisions and two to three day stays at a hospital are archaic.
It seems to me that "non-invasive" and surgery are conflicting terms. Minimally invasive is pretty much standard procedure today.
I went through several different non-invasive procedures prior to my surgeries. A good surgeon will try to avoid surgery. But, if a patient is having severe pain down the leg and foot for more than three months, it's time to have the surgery. After three months, the chances of the situation improving is almost zero.