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Bulging Disc Help from Laser Spine Institute

A bulging disc can truly put your life on hold. The pain, which can include numbness, tingling, weakness in the extremities, and other types of discomfort, can force you to stop certain activities because they hurt so badly. Contact sports and even games like golf may be out of the question, and depending on what you do for a living, it may be hard to go to work. While this can be a depressing scenario, it doesn’t have to be. There is help out there for bulging disc sufferers. In fact, a majority of these patients can find relief with conservative treatments that include stretching, hot and cold compresses, and physical therapy. For those who need a little more help, there are prescription pain medications and spinal steroid injections to ease the pain further. Still, if the pain doesn’t subside, there is a procedure at Laser Spine Institute (LSI), a percutaneous endoscopic discectomy, that may be able to eliminate the pain once and for all.

Here’s how it works:

• The area of your back or neck that’s harboring the bulging disc is numbed. IV medication is administered for deep sedation.
• A small incision is made, and a series of narrow, nesting endoscopy tubes are inserted. They are used to access the affected disc by gently pushing muscle aside with increasingly larger tubes. The largest is left in place and the others are removed.
• Tiny tools, including a laser, camera and light are fed down the tube, and the laser is used to remove the portion of disc compressing nerves.
• All the tools and the tube are removed, and the incision is closed.

Generally, recovery is quick and much less painful than what follows traditional bulging disc surgery. Our patients are up and walking within hours of the procedure. Also, because it’s so minimally invasive, there is lower risk of infection and other complications.

If you’d like more information about this bulging disc procedure, contact LSI today. We’ll review your MRI or CT scan free of charge.