A cervical spine surgery in India is a world class medical procedure offered at low cost. The spinal surgery hospitals in India are well equipped with excellent infrastructure, ensures high quality treatments that adhere to the international standards. India has the best artificial disc implants with the non-existent waiting period for the cervical spine surgery. Further, the international patients can communicate well with the English speaking doctors and the medical staff. The persistent back pain can be easily corrected with the cervical spine surgery.
The cervical spine is a summation of the seven vertebrae and each of them is separated by shocl-absorbing discs that allow the spine to be flexible and help us to move and bend. The nerves spread out from the cord passes through the openings in these vertebrae to other parts of the body. Due to injury or aging, one or more discs can degenerate leading to the bulged disc or osteoarthritis of the vertebrae leading to nerve pain and impairment of the nerves existing between the vertebrae. This could lead to several problems such as pain in the neck region which can radiate to the hands, arms, shoulder and even breasts.
The neck pain can signify an inflammatory or the degenerative spine diseases such as the degenerative cervical spine disorders like spondylosis, intervertebral disc herniation, cervical stenosis and cervical spondylotic myelopathy, neoplastic cervical spine diseases, neck pain with radiculopathy such as cervical myelopathy and cervical radiculopathy, cervical spine deformity like osteoporosis and other congenital anomalies, inflammatory cervical spne diseases such as ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid arthritis and infections.
The treatment is performed through two procedure: decompression and fusion, that can be done through either anterior, posterior or combined approach. The anterior approach includes, disc arthroplasty, cervical discetomy with or without fusion, corpectomy and transoral approach. The posterior approach include, laminoplasty, laminectomy, posterior disectomy, laminectomy with fusion, foraminoplasty and upper cervical fusion.
The cervical spine surgery is indicated for the patients who have pain which radiates from the neck to the shoulder, arms or back of breast, weakness of arms or hands, pain interfering with daily activities and they have had physiotherapeutic and medication yet these didn’t help. The treatment of cervical spine dysfunction is done through decompression and fusion. The decompression with a fusion cervical spine surgery entails surgical tissue removal by pressing against the spinal cord or the nerves thereby resulting in pain and other problems. The approach can be anterior of posterior of the spine depending upon the location of the tissues where it is being compressed.
The operation will take about one to three hours for completion. The patient will be given anesthesia before the procedure. A two inch length incision will be made on the right or left side of the neck and way is paved by retracing and moving the muscles, trachea, oesphagus and other structures anatomically in aiding the instrumentation for the procedure. The damaged disc is located using a fluoroscope and a thin needle will be inserted for locating the damaged disc. The surgical instruments are introduced to the space for retracting the adjacent discs and spreading them apart. The damaged disc will be removed thereby decompressing the nerve.
The bone spurs which compress the nerves are removed and the foramen carrying the spinal nerve is enlarged with a procedure called as a foraminotomy. The spinal cord is decompressed by removing the disc annulus and the nucleus. The preparation are done for bone graft fusion which is introduced into the space between the vertebrae with metal plastes and screws. Most patients experience a dramatic and lasting improvement in their neck pain and pain in the hands and arms after the cervical spinal surgery. Contact Spine and Neuro Surgery Hospital India to book your cervical spine surgery at affordable costs.