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Degenerative Disc Pain Management
Aging is a natural part of life, but degenerative disc pain doesn’t have to be. There are many ways to manage, minimize, or even eliminate pain caused by this disease, including:
- Exercise
- Physical therapy
- Hot and cold compresses
- Chiropractic treatment
- Rest
- Over-the-counter (OTC) painkillers
- Anti-inflammatory injections
If you’ve tried all the conservative treatment options above and still suffer from degenerative disc pain, then you may want to consider endoscopic spine surgery at Laser Spine Institute (LSI). Our expert surgeons perform highly effective, minimally invasive procedures that can significantly reduce or eliminate symptoms resulting from degenerative disc disease and give you long term relief.
How Does Degenerative Disc Surgery Help with Pain?
After making a small incision, our surgeons use a small tube to softly push muscle aside and get to the offending disc. They can then insert irrigation tools, suction, a camera, and other surgical instruments through the tube and work using the image provided by the camera to guide them. Once they have removed the bone or tissue that’s compressing the nerve, our surgeons remove the tube and instruments, and close the incision. The whole procedure usually takes under an hour. Because it causes such little trauma to the body, it is able to be done using IV sedation and local anesthesia rather than general anesthesia as with traditional surgery.
If you want to make your degenerative disc pain a thing of the past, and would like more information on how laser spine surgery from LSI can help, contact us today. Just send us your MRI or CT scan, and one of our doctors will review it free of charge and let you know if you’re eligible for the procedure.