Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery is the new worldwide recognized tendency. It allows surgeons to do conventional surgeries using small incisions to avoid displacement and trauma in the muscles, always guaranteeing the same or even better results than a conventional surgery.

With this type of procedure the patient benefits from a reduction in the amount of pain, post-surgery recovery and hospitalization as well as less blood loss, allowing them to return to their normal life sooner.

• Thorax and Lumbar Spinal disc herniations with microsurgical technology.
• Compression release with preservation of the disc (foraminotomy and interspinous stabilizer).
• Remodeling of lumbar canal in lumbar stenosis case (narrowing of canal).
• Relief of symptoms and dynamic stabilization of listesis (moving vertebrae), lumbar grade 1.

The Hospital de Diagnostico and the Instituto de Neurociencias together started the program of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery with the purpose of gathering, specialized medical experts and state of the art technology to do the procedures in a safe and secure manner.

The Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery program has also incorporated a new technique known as “dynamic stabilization”. Dynamic Stabilization is used to try to save the invertebrate disc (when possible) or replace the disc with dynamic prosthesis that are intended to preserve the arch of movement of the spine, objectives that can’t be accomplished with traditional fusion procedures.

Minimally invasive surgery and innovative techniques, such as dynamic stabilization, offer a better alternative and successful surgery results, in addition to maintaining the normal ranges of movement of the spine.