Any time surgery is done on the spine, there is some risk of injuring the spinal cord or the individual nerves. This can occur from instruments used during surgery, from swelling, or from scar formation after surgery. Damage to the spinal cord can cause paralysis in certain areas and not others. So, You should go to the expert spine surgeon if you need spine surgery.

In spinal stenosis surgery may be required to prevent further damage to the cord itself and prevent paralysis. In the lower back, spinal stenosis symptoms may cause radiculopathy. This may result in pain in a leg with weakness, numbness and tingling.

The bones in your spine come together at several small joints that keep the bones lined up while still allowing them to move. Spondylolisthesis is caused by a problem with one or more of these small joints that allows one bone to move out of line.

The era of minimal invasive surgery has been arrived also in back/spine surgery. Smaller keyhole incisions are replacing large surgical cuts. The traditional way of spine surgery done as “open surgery” has gone. However, in recent era advancement of technology allowed to surgeons more back and neck conditions to be treated with a minimally invasive surgical technique. Due to not involving in the long incision, minimally invasive spine surgery avoids the significant damage to the muscles surrounding the spine. Resulting in less pain after surgery and a faster recovery.

No. Because microdiscectomy does not affect the normal function of your disc, it has no effect on other disc levels in your spine.

Discs are the soft tissue pads between your lumbar vertebrae. They act as a cushion or shock absorber for the bones of your spine. As such, they are subject to extreme mechanical forces. As we age, they begin to wear or deteriorate. They can also be injured. A worn or damaged disc can cause back pain. A disc herniation is simply a piece of disc material that has broken loose and pushed its way into a place it does not belong. If it pushes up against a nerve root, it can cause severe pain. Once the disc is no longer pressing on the nerves, the pain usually goes away.