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 ...

Data are needed on whether diskectomy or a conservative approach is better for sciatica that has persisted for several months. In a single-center trial, we randomly assigned patients with sciatica ...

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 ...

That’ll increase the amount of time you need for recovery. Diskectomy. Sometimes a disk, the cushion that separates your vertebrae, can slip out of place, press on a spinal nerve, and cause back ...

At 1 year, 107 of 156 patients (69 percent) assigned to tubular diskectomy reported a good recovery vs. 120 of 151 patients (79 percent) assigned to conventional microdiskectomy.

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 ...

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

“I was really uncomfortable. There was a lot of pain.” Yelich underwent a diskectomy to remove the damaged part of a disk in the spine. Dr. Brandon Rebholz performed the operation in Milwaukee.

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 ...

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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