Bulging Disc Symptoms Can be Reduced and Even Eliminated with Laser Spine Surgery

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Bulging Disc Symptoms Can be Reduced and Even Eliminated with Laser Spine Surgery

Bulging disc symptoms can range from mild tingling to throbbing pain that radiates to your fingertips or toes, forcing you to forgo daily activities like work and exercise. That’s because a bulging disc, which has deteriorated from wear and allowed the inner core to extrude into the spinal canal, can press on a nerve. The severity of the pain depends on how hard it’s pressing the nerve, and the pain location depends on where in the spine the affected disc is located. If the bulging disc symptoms are felt in the legs and feet, then the bulging disc is located in the lumbar region, or lower back. This condition can also cause back pain as well as leg weakness. If the bulging disc is located in the cervical section of the spine, near the neck, you may experience pain that radiates into the shoulders, down the arms and into the fingers. All of these bulging disc symptoms can worsen when extra pressure is put on the nerve - this extra pressure can result from seemingly harmless activities like sneezing, coughing, driving or even sitting still. Fortunately, you don’t have to accept this pain as part of normal life. Laser Spine Institute may be able to treat it with a surgery that’s safer than the traditional open back treatment used to treat bulging disc symptoms.

Here’s how LSI surgery compares to traditional surgery:

LSI surgery requires 4 to 5 short outpatient visits to our office on consecutive days. Traditional surgery often requires a multiple day hospital stay along with aftercare and physical therapy visits after discharge.

LSI surgery requires only local anesthesia and deep IV sedation. Most traditional surgery requires general anesthesia, which comes with increased risk for complications.
LSI surgery uses a small incision and pushes muscle aside with a tube used to feed surgical instruments to the bulging disc site. Traditional surgery often requires a larger incision or incisions and significant damage to muscle and potentially bone. This increases the chances of infection and usually makes for a longer, more painful recovery process.

Laser Spine Institute offers even more advantages to traditional surgery. To learn more about easing your bulging disc symptoms with LSI, contact us today. We’ll review your CT scan or MRI for free to determine if you are a good candidate for laser spine surgery.

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