There are a few different surgeries that can do this and relieve your pain. Diskectomy. During this surgery, your surgeon removes your damaged disk to relieve pressure on your nerves. They can ...

July 14, 2009 — Conventional microdiskectomy may be better than tubular diskectomy for sciatica, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial reported in the July 8 issue of the ...

Since that hasn’t been true for you, disk surgery may be needed. A common type of disk surgery is diskectomy. During the procedure, the surgeon makes an opening in the spinal canal, through ...

Code 22554 is for an arthrodesis, anterior interbody technique, including minimal diskectomy to prepare interspace (other than for decompression); cervical below C2 performed without a discectomy ...

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The outfielder underwent a diskectomy earlier Friday after coming to the realization that he was not going to be able to return to the lineup for a playoff push solely through rehab. Brewers ...

Fifteen years worth of data from across the country was pooled and analyzed in order to evaluate open/traditional versus minimally invasive lumbar diskectomy.