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The Medical Advantage of Spinal Fusion Surgery
The main reason why some people are constantly having back pains is most probably got something to do with two or more spinal vertebrae that is moving in frictional pace against each other, such that the movement affects the nearby nerves, ligaments, and muscles, which altogether can result into so much discomfort and this is why when spinal surgeons see this situation, they would rather recommend for a spinal fusion surgery in order to correct the dilemma, thus joining two or more spinal vertebrae into one single structure and stopping the clashing movement between these bones. To determine the cause of back pains, the patient concerned needs to go through a series of tests to fully check accurately which suspected spinal problem is causing the chronic discomfort, since there are specific causes, as studied in medicine, which can be remedied by spinal fusion and these causes are: when the space between the spinal disks have narrowed causing the painful rubbing of the bones and which is a result of degenerative spinal disease; an inborn scoliosis abnormality that arises with the spinal curves growing to one side instead of straight upward; when the spinal canal narrows or known as spinal stenosis; a tumor growth on the spine; or an abnormal shifting of a spinal disk which is called spondylolisthesis.
Spinal fusion surgery is a delicate form of surgery and must be performed by an experienced and trained spinal specialist and, in this connection, there are two ways for a spinal surgeon to perform the surgery: one, by way of operating through the belly, anterior lumbar inter-body fusion, and the other, by way of posterior fusion, which is operating directly from the back, thus when the surgeon has thoroughly discussed the manner of surgery to the patient, after incision, he sets aside to the side part the muscles and other organs to go further down and see and inspect the spine and starts removing the joints found between the damaged spinal disks and replaces these with any of the following methods: using screws, rods, or bone graft which is taken from either the hip or pelvis and, at the same time, inserts a bone morphogenetic protein to stimulate bone growth of the newly-replaced joints. Since the risk of complications may set in after surgery, surgeons are responsible of discussing these risks first to their patients before an operation is scheduled, so everything is clear and well understood by their patients, and these possible risks are blood clots, bleeding, infection, after surgery pain, risk from anesthesia, and other potential problems, such as nerve injury causing numbness; complications of tissue rejection and infection, if the bone grafted is from a donor; and, worst, if the spinal fusion surgery does not work accordingly and the back pain returns.
