Guangxi’s first case of intervertebral foramenoscopic surgery successfully carried out

Guangxi health life network Nanning, November 25 (Reporter Lv Chao Ye intern Liang Lun Zhu) November 23, the reporter in Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated Ruikang Hospital interviewed the patient Huang Mou, Department of Guangxi Hengxian, 26 years old, engaged in the driver’s profession driving age of 5 years, due to severe lumbar pain and accompanied by the left lower extremity numbness and pain in stretching and lifting inconvenience for more than a year, so to the affiliated Ruikang Hospital of Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Bone and Spine Department for diagnosis and treatment. Diagnosed as lumbar intervertebral disc herniation by specialized doctors, the patient was requested to carry out intervertebral foramenoscopy surgery yesterday afternoon. “The operation was carried out very smoothly, after half an hour of minimally invasive treatment under local anesthesia awake, he was immediately relieved of leg pain symptoms during the operation, bleeding was only about 10 ml, only 1 stitch after the operation, that is, after the end of the operation, he got up from the operating table autonomously, and he could lift his left leg freely in the hospital bed and could walk on the ground.” It is understood that Ruikang Hospital Affiliated to Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the first hospital in Nanning to introduce advanced German minimally invasive spine technology – lumbar intervertebral foraminoscopy technology (Tessys technology), and successfully carried out two cases of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation intervertebral foraminoscopic nucleus pulposus removal surgery on November 23, 2013 “The two patients’ pain and numbness disappeared immediately after the operation, and they were able to get up from the operating table and walk on the ground. So far, the Orthopedic Spine Department of the hospital has also become the first hospital in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region that has relevant equipment and successfully carries out this technology. The development of this new technology not only fills the blank of intervertebral foramenoscopy minimally invasive surgery for lumbar intervertebral disc disease, but also shows that the Department of Orthopedics and Spine of the hospital has ranked among the domestic advanced in the field of minimally invasive treatment of spine surgery. Zhou Xianming, deputy director of the hospital’s spine department, introduced the intervertebral foramenoscopy technology, is the latest international treatment of lumbar disc herniation minimally invasive surgery, compared with the traditional open surgery, the technology has the following outstanding advantages: local anesthesia is required only in the patient’s fully awake state to do the operation, the patient can be fully coordinated with the doctor in the process of the operation to achieve the patient’s control of the pain; trauma is small, only 0.7cm aperture, no need to remove stitches, reducing the wound healing. No need to remove stitches, reduce wound healing pain, high patient comfort; protection of spinal biomechanical stability, do not destroy the posterior structure of the spine, as far as possible to protect the normal neural tissue; intervertebral foramenoscopy into the skin incision after all the operations are visualized, the operation is easy to avoid nerves, high security; less bleeding, fast recovery, the day of the operation can be down to the ground walking, two days after the operation can be discharged from the hospital to save the time of treatment. Low cost of surgery, about 10,000 yuan; low recurrence rate after surgery, after successful recovery period of three months after surgery, remember to bend over and not to lift heavy objects to protect the lumbar muscles from damage to the basic no big deal.