Lumbar Spine Surgery in India

The Lumbar Spine Surgery in India mainly consists of 5 vertebrae and these are the largest vertebrae in your spine which provide support to your head and trunk. The lumbar spine surgery at the hospitals under Spine Surgery India will be performed by highly skilled and trained spine surgeons and they perform this surgery using two approaches which is (i) lumbar decompression and (ii) lumbar fusion.

i)       Lumbar decompression: The purpose to perform lumbar decompression surgery to relieve pain which has been caused by nerve root pinching. The pressure on lumbar nerve root will occur due to two common causes i.e. from a lumbar herniated disc or lumbar spinal stenosis.

While performing a decompression surgery your spine surgeon will remove a small portion of your bone over the nerve root or disc material from under the nerve root to provide relief from pinching of the nerve and also provide more room for the nerve to heal. The most commonly performed decompression surgeries are microdiscectomy and laminectomy.

ii)      Lumbar fusion: The main purpose of the spine surgeons to perform the lumbar fusion is to stop the pain which occurs at a painful motion segment in your lower back. Usually, the spine surgeons at the hospitals under Spine Surgery India perform this type of surgery to relieve pain and disability which has been caused by lumbar degenerative disc disease or spondylolisthesis.

While performing the spinal fusion surgery your spine surgeon will make use of bone graft which helps in stopping the motion at a painful vertebral segment and in turn it should decrease the pain that has been generated from the joint. Spine surgery instrumentation, bone graft procedures, and a bone stimulator your surgeon will sometimes use along with spinal fusion.

What are the lumbar spine surgery techniques?

The following are the techniques through which lumbar spine surgery in India is performed and these are:

a)     Foraminotomy: A foraminotomy is a procedure which is performed when disc material or bone spurs press against a nerve exiting the foramen which is the passageway of nerve. And it makes the opening of the foramen larger and also relieves nerve compression.

b)     Facetectomy: Facetectomy is a procedure in which your spine surgeon will completely or partially remove the facet joint. This is a procedure which is performed to reduce nerve root compression or to gain access to disc space.

c)      Laminotomy and Laminectomy: This is a procedure in which your spine surgeon will gain access to the disc material which is invading the spinal canal and they will make a small opening in the lamina. Laminectomy is a procedure in which your spine surgeon will remove all or part of the lamina and this procedure is performed to relieve spinal cord compression or to gain access to a disc from your back. Usually, the spine surgeons at the hospitals under Spine Surgery India use laminectomy procedure to treat lumbar spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal canal which is sometimes caused by arthritis.

d)     Discectomy: This is a procedure in which your spine surgeon will surgically remove all or part of a disc. Your spine surgeon will perform discectomy from the posterior which is your back or anterior which is your front through the abdominal cavity to reach your spine.

How to make spine stabilized?

This is very important to understand how the spine can be stabilized. The above procedures are decompression techniques. Usually, foraminotomy and laminotomy are the procedures which do not disturb your spinal stability. However, the laminectomy, facetectomy, and discectomy are the techniques in which your surgeon will remove something from your spine and you required the lumbar spine to stabilize your spine. The best stabilization technique is fusion in which bones are fused together by using a bone graft. Fusion is a technique which is performed to stop the motion between two or more vertebrae and this will provide long-term stabilization to your spine. While performing a low back fusion your adjacent vertebral bodies, facet joints, and lamina may be fused together.

Nowadays, there are many bone grafts which the spine surgeon uses and this includes autograft, allograft, and biological substances. The use of bone substitutes will help in reducing the problems that have been associated with patient’s when their own bone for a bone graft is used. A bone growth stimulator will be recommended which help your spinal bone heal after a fusion procedure.

Spine specific implants which are known as instrumentation and they are regularly combined with fusion. Instrumentation includes devices like plates, rods, screws, and interbody devices. These are the devices which hold your spine stable until the fusion heals solid. There are certain types of non-fusion devices as well which may be utilized to treat lumbar spinal stenosis.

When lumbar spine surgery in India is performed?

Lumbar spine surgeries are the most successful treatments which are performed by highly skilled and trained spine surgeons perform. Usually, the spine surgeons at the hospitals under Spine Surgery India perform the lumbar spine surgery when all other non-surgical treatments are failed to treat lumbar degeneration. According to the study, the patients who all have selected the appropriate surgical procedure will generally recover fast and they can return to the normal activities but with few limitations as suggested by the spine surgeon such as they have to take care that they avoid hard exercises, lifting heavy objects, etc. for a certain period of time.

How much does the Lumbar Spine Surgery Cost in India?

The Lumbar Spine Surgery Cost in India at the hospitals under Spine Surgery India range between USD 5,000 to USD 7,000 which is very reasonable and people across the world can easily afford the treatment cost. The reason that the surgeons at these hospitals offer a reasonable cost so that people of each class can avail the benefits and can live happily without any pain. This makes India is the best country to have spinal treatments and people in larger number travel India every year for their spinal treatments.