Fast Recovery Time After Spine Surgery

Unfortunately, exciting medical advancements often lead to misconceptions, which is exactly what is happening in the minimally invasive industry right now. Many doctors are claiming to perform minimally invasive surgery, and are getting away with it because of the incision size, but the equipment, or retractor they are using expands once inside your spine, causing as much muscle tearing and pain as open back surgery. It is really important to ask the right questions and to be educated on minimally invasive procedures when interviewing doctors.

Not all doctors and endoscopic surgeries are created equal. While many doctors claim to perform invasive back and neck surgery with an incision of less than 3 mm, they often still use expandable retractors. Why is this considered a big deal? Expandable retractors mean that while some surgery centers can still have a small incision point, they use these retractors to expand the area once inside your spine. The expansion can cause as much tearing and pain as traditional open back surgery.

At The Minimally Invasive Spine Institute, we can promise you that we never use expandable retractors. Instead, our specialized and innovative equipment allows us to enter between the muscle, often through an incision as small as 3 mm, and avoid cutting the muscle altogether.

The result is that there is less trauma to the body. In addition to providing an end to your pain, our surgery technique lets us operate without muscle damage that often requires no stitches, has less blood loss meaning a much quicker recovery, and less scarring because our procedures leave you with virtually no scar tissue so you can begin living an active and healthy lifestyle as soon as possible. Another perk is that depending on the type of surgery that is performed, our patients often walk out of the surgery center in as little as two hours after the procedure.

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