The surgery required to treat your back pain varies according to the cause of your pain and its severity. Some of the surgeries the Elite Sports Medicine and Orthopedics back pain specialists specializes in include:
- Laminectomy: Removal of the lamina of a vertebra to decrease pressure or pain on the spinal cord.
- Microdiscectomy: Removal of the part of your spinal disc causing nerve pain.
- Artificial disc replacement (cervical spine only): Removal of the damaged disc from the cervical area of your spine and replacement with an artificial disc.
- ACDF (anterior cervical discectomy and fusion): Removal of herniated discs, followed by fusing two or more vertebrae.
- ALIF (anterior lumbar interbody fusion): Removal of a damaged disc. A bone graft is put in its place to facilitate the fusion over several months.
- OLIF (oblique lumbar interbody fusion): Removal of a damaged disc, which the doctor replaces with an interbody device, resulting in bone fusion.
- LLIF (lateral lumbar interbody fusion): Removal of a damaged disc to facilitate bone fusion, completed from the side of the body.
- PSIF (posterior spinal instrumented fusion): Removal of the painful disc, which the surgeon replaces with bone graft to facilitate vertebrae fusion. The doctor completes this surgery from the back of the body.
