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Spine Surgery For Nerve Compression.

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Nerve compression can be a debilitating condition that affects many people. While the cause is unknown, it can be treated with spine surgery to remove the nerve compression and restore normal nerve function.

Treatment options include decompression surgery and fusion surgery. Decompression surgery removes the compressing tumor or disc material from the spinal canal and adjacent areas.

Fusion surgery fuses two vertebrae together with a bone graft to relieve pressure on the nerve root(s).

What is nerve compression?

Nerve compression is a condition that occurs when pressure is put on a nerve. This can happen as a result of herniated discs, bone spurs, and infections.

In the case of herniated discs and bone spurs, the spinal canal narrows due to disc material pressing against it from within or soft tissues growing around its edges from outside.

When this happens, nerves are compressed and may become inflamed or damaged if they remain compressed for an extended period of time (more than six months).

Nerves carry messages between your brain and body parts such as arms/legs or face/lips – so when they’re compressed by something like bulging disc material or bone spurs, those messages don’t get delivered properly which causes pain!

Symptoms of nerve compression.

Nerve compression can cause a variety of symptoms. Typically, you’ll experience numbness, tingling and pain in the area where your nerve is being compressed.

The pain may be constant or intermittent and can be characterized as sharp or dull. If you have severe nerve compression, you may even experience muscle weakness in the affected limb.

If it’s not treated properly, this condition could lead to chronic pain syndrome–a condition where you suffer from persistent everyday discomfort that interferes with your ability to work and live normally.

Causes of nerve compression.

The most common causes of nerve compression are degenerative disc disease, herniated disc, spinal stenosis and scoliosis.

Other conditions that can contribute to nerve compression include kyphosis or lordosis (forward curvature of the spine), spondylolisthesis (slippage of one vertebrae over another) and spinal tumors.

Nerve compression may also be caused by infection or trauma to the spine.

Talk to your doctor about options for treatment.

If you have been diagnosed with nerve compression, talk to your doctor about options for treatment. Your doctor will be able to help you weigh the risks and benefits of each option.

You may also want to ask how much each procedure will cost, as well as how successful they’ve been in similar cases of nerve compression.

Spine surgery may help relieve pain caused by nerve compression.

Spinal fusion surgery: The surgeon uses bone grafts to fuse together the vertebrae, or bones, in your spine. This procedure can be done through an open incision (with an incision that goes all the way down to the bone) or through a minimally invasive approach using small incisions at each side of your lower back.
Spinal decompression surgery: The surgeon removes pressure on the spinal cord by removing part of the disc and/or bone spurs around it. This type of surgery can be done through an open incision or through minimally invasive techniques such as endoscopic discectomy (using small tools inserted into tiny openings) or percutaneous laser discectomy (using high-energy light beams).
Spinal cord stimulation: A device implanted near nerves helps control pain signals coming from damaged nerves so they don’t reach higher brain centers responsible for processing pain signals.