The Spinal Cord is made up of Vertebrae and Disc. The soft tissue between 2 Vertebrae is called Disc and provides cusion to the vertebrae during the movement of the spine. In every movement of our body like bending, twisting, dancing, walking, running the spinal column plays an important role. The smooth movement of the vertebrae is made possible by the soft disc between them. However sometimes the disc between the vertebrae is pushed outside in a condition called PIVD (Protrusion of the Intervertebral Disc).
The spinal column has nerves coming from the brain and going to the lower extremities like legs. This protruding disc starts impinging on the nerves and causes compression which results in severe pain and also pain which travels to the legs. This condition after some time starts causing numbness in the legs and the pain sensation increases so much that the patient is not able to move.
At earlier stage the disc bulge can be treated through physical therapies like ultrasonic and laser which shrinks the protruding disc and reduces the compression on the nerve root thereby reducing the pain. Alternatively some back exercises help in the strengthening of the spinal and paraspinal muscles which also reduces the load on the spinal column and thus gives long term pain relief.
One to 2 days of complete bed rest will usually help relieve back and leg pain in cases of disc bulge and compression. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs), medications such as ibuprofen or naproxen can help relieve pain, Physical therapy as explained above is the mainstay of back pain relief while in some patients epidural steroid injections can also help.
Microdiscectomy is a Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. In a microdiscectomy or microdecompression spine surgery, a small portion of the bone over the nerve root and/or disc material from under the nerve root is removed to relieve neural impingement and provide more room for the nerve to heal.
The patient is normally admitted on the day of the surgery and the neurosurgeon or the orthopedic spine surgeon will perform the surgery using high resolution microscope so that the entire surgery can be performed through a small incision.
The patient is normally discharged from the hospital in 2-3 days time and can start performing all the activities within one week in case of Microdiscectomy while the normal open surgery requires a much longer recovery period. The pain is relieved almost immediately after the surgery and the patient is able to do all the normal work and exercises after 6 weeks of the surgery.
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