What Are “Band-Aid” Procedures?

When you do something day after day, you tend to start talking in a language that other people don’t understand. We try to use this blog to keep things as plain and simple as possible, but we’ve still caught ourselves using phrases that might be confusing to people that don’t understand the idea behind minimally invasive surgery.

So let’s set things straight. What exactly are “band-aid” procedures?

It’s really quite simple. Many procedures are so minimally invasive they only require a 3 mm incision. Because we don’t use expandable retractors (like many others claiming to do minimally invasive surgery) we don’t tear or strip the muscle. This means NO stitches and only a small band-aid during recovery.

Using band-aids as a recovery method after surgery is a pretty foreign idea, but we can offer this radical alternative to our patients because of our use of world-class technologies and highly-advanced microscopic tools. Because of our innovative laser techniques there is:

• Less Anesthesia
  Due to the size of our incisions and our ability to use lasers to treat the source of your pain, very little anesthesia is needed and usually only locally.
• Less Recovery Time
  Patients often walk out of the surgery center in as little as two hours after the procedure.
• Less Trauma
  Pioneering laser spine techniques without muscle damage that often require NO stitches.
• Less Blood Loss
  Less blood loss and less trauma mean a much quicker recovery for you and your body.
• Less Scarring
  Often requiring only a band-aid for healing, our minimally invasive procedures leave you with virtually no scar tissue so you can enjoy an active lifestyle once again.

Sound good? Check out our website for more details. Visit ZeroSpinePain.com

Tags: Laser Spine Surgery, Minimally Invasive Spine Institute