Best Effective Spine Surgery In Chennai

Spine surgery is  practiced in those individuals who have severe problems in one or more discs in the spine. Our spine can get injured due to different reasons like, aging, trauma, improper body mechanics, structural abnormalities which may lead to back pain and other severe symptoms like, pain in leg and weakness or numbness in leg.

A chronic back pain can be considered as a situation which needs a team of health professionals to diagnose and treat it.

Open spine surgery Vs Minimally invasive spine surgery:

The traditional practice of spine surgery was carried out as open surgery. This entails the opening the operative area through a long incision. This enables the surgeon to access the spinal anatomy properly. But now as the technology has advanced and is still advancing, more and more spine disorder condition can be treated using minimally invasive surgical procedure.

As there are no involvement of any long incisions in the minimal invasive spine surgery, the open manipulation of muscles and tissue are avoided, and therefore the time duration of the operative time is made shorter. This also leads to the fast recovery of the patient.

Different surgical approaches by the surgeon:

For an open surgery and minimally invasive spine surgery, the spine can be accessed from different directions. Different approaches to access the spine are;

Anterior approach  : The surgical access to the spine is from the front of your body (through abdomen)

Posterior approach : Access to the spine is through the incision made at the back of your body.

Lateral approach : Spine is accessed through the side of your body.

Common type of spine surgeries:

A numerous conditions of spine leads to a spine surgery. The common type of Spinal Cord Surgery in Chennai include;

Discectomy or Microdiscectomy : Removal of all parts of herniated disc.

Laminectomy : Deals with the pressure relieving by removing the bone spur in the spine.

Laminotomy : Process of removing a portion of lamina that covers the spine.

Foraminotomy : Removes the  bone in the passage where the nerve root branches off the spinal cord.

Disc replacement : An injured disc is replaced with an artificial cord.

Spinal fusion : A surgical approach to join two vertebrae.

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Spina bifida

What is Spina Bifida 

Spina bifida is a common birth defect to the central nervous system. It is a neural tube defect, it occurs when the bones of spinal cord are not completely form and resulting in formation of incomplete spinal canal. In most of the cases, the spinal cord and the tissues which covers the spinal cord stick out of the child's back.

The cause of spina bifida 

Cause of spina bifida is unknown but the deficiency of folic acid is thought to play a major part of this. If a baby is born with spina bifida, following childrens in that particular family have a higher chance than the general population.

Types of Spina bifida

Spina bifida occulta :

In this the and the spina bifida defect is not visible, it is discovered accidentally while the victim has undergone with an X-ray or MRI for any other purpose.

Meningocele : 

The membrane or tissue that surrounds the spinal cord which may enlarges and form a cyst and it is invisible through the skin and causes no problems.

Myelomeningocele :

This is the most severe and complex form of spina bifida. It is also called as Spina bifida cystica. A part of spinal cord and the membrane and tissue covers the spinal cord and exposed and visible on the outside of the body.

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Spine Tumor Treatment India

What is Spine Tumor?

A spinal tumor is a growth  of cells or mass that develops with in or surroundings of the spinal cord. It may be cancerous or noncancerous.

Symptoms of Spine Tumor

The symptoms of spine tumor depends on the type of tumor, location, and our general health. Spine Tumors will spread to the spine from different positions (metastatic tumors) often quickly. Primary tumors normally spread slowly over weeks to years.

How to Diagnose Spine Tumor

With a neurological examination it is easy to pinpoint the location of the tumor and the health care provider also find the following during the undergoing neurological examination 

*Abnormal reflexes

*Increased muscle tone

*Loss of temperature and pain sensation

*Muscle weakness

*Tenderness in the spine

The following tests may confirm spinal tumor:

*Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination

*Cytology (cell studies) of CSF

*Myelogram

*Spinal CT

*Spine MRI

*Spine x-ray

Treatment for Spine tumor

The goal of Spinal tumor treatment is to decrease or prevent the nerve damage from pressure on the spinal cord. Treatment must be given quickly. If the symptoms develop more quickly, the sooner treatment is needed to prevent permanent injury.

Treatments include:

• Corticosteroids (dexamethasone) it given to decrease the inflammation and swelling around the     spinal cord.
• Surgery  need to relieve compression on the spinal cord and Some spinal tumors can be             completely  removed and in some cases,the part of the Spine tumor may be removed to reduce   the     pressure on the spinal cord.
• Radiation therapy.
• Chemotherapy.
• Physical therapy is needed to improve the muscle strength and  ability to function  independently.

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