With the technology that we have now, there are a lot of surgeries and procedures that are popping up that are far less invasive and have a much less recovery time compared to all of their traditional counterparts.
A perfect example of this is laser spine surgery where it is much more minimally invasive and removes much fewer portions of tissues on your spinal cord and nerves. Here is everything you need to know about laser spine surgery.

How Safe and Effective is Laser Spine Surgery?


You might feel a bit of pain and there might be moments where you feel a bit of discomfort especially when there is a pressure that is placed on your nerve. There are things that could happen to your spins that could compress it, like bone spur and herniated disc.
There is also a condition that happens when your sciatica nerve is pinched which could cause you to feel pain in the lower part of your back and your leg that is called sciatica.
You would be able to use laser spine surgery to help decompress the said nerve so that the pain that you are feeling could lessen. You are going to go under anesthesia so your skin and your muscles are going to be numbed and you are not going to feel any pain.
There are also some surgeons who could sedate you for the whole procedure, talk to them before your surgery and ask them what is going to happen while you are under the scalpel. Before the procedure, it’s advisable to ask them questions to make your experience more comfortable.

What are the benefits of laser spine surgery?


Laser spine surgery is much less invasive than traditional back surgery. With laser spine surgery, you could perform the whole procedure in an outpatient setting.
During the procedure, your surgeon is going to use a small incision. There are a lot of things that surgeons could do despite the incision being so small, like shrink the disc material, remove enlarged tendons, remove excess disc material that is building, remove tumors, and remove obstructions.
Laser spine surgery also takes less time because it only generally just requires one incision so they won’t be cutting any other part of your body, making it much faster compared to open surgery.

Can Laser Spine Surgery Help Degenerative Disc Disease?


There are only certain conditions that laser spine surgery would be able to treat. As for people who have Degenerative Disc Disease, surgeons would rarely recommend people who have the said disease to go through laser surgery.
Your surgeon would be able to remove tumors that are found on your spinal cord or bone, and they could remove some of the soft tissue around a nerve. But they could also use these said lasers to help in shrinking the disc material that is around a nerve.

How Long is Recovery From Laser Spine?


This depends on what your surgeon would say during your consultation, but usually, you would be able to make full recovery 6 weeks after your surgery.
The whole recovery process of the surgery could be done solely at home, and you do not have to stay in the hospital and become an inpatient.
Compare this recovery time with traditional spine surgery, laser spine surgery has a much shorter and more comfortable recovery time so when you are working a desk job, you would be able to go back to work within a week.
There are going to be a lot of restrictions a few weeks after your surgery, and there is a possibility that you are going to have to have physical therapy, depending on what your surgeon tells you, but there are a lot of steps that you could take to make sure that your recovery goes by as quick as possible.
Your surgeon is going to talk with you and help you go through the possible signs that you could look out for in case of any possible complications and infections so that you could call them if you notice any problems.
You could also move around according to the recommendation of your surgeon so you won’t be strained or so you won’t over-exert yourself, and go to physical therapy to help move around easier.