ENDOSCOPIC SPINE SURGERY: MAKING SPINE TREATMENT EASY AND AFFORDABLE

The trend toward minimally invasive surgery MIS) is widespread among all surgical specialties, including spine surgery. The reasons for this are numerous. In general, MIS strives to offer equivalent or better surgical outcomes compared to open surgery, while minimizing the surgical footprint.” True minimally invasive spine surgery approaches should not only minimize incision size but also reduce the extent of underlying tissue disruption and blood loss.

- By Dr. Sunny Kamat

Dr. Sunny Kamat is a Consultant Spine specialist Orthopedics Surgeon Qualification MBBS | MS(Orthopedics) | Fellowship in Spine Surgery (Germany) With the aging of the global population, the number of patients with degenerative spine disorders (DSDs) specific to the elderly is on rise. These severely restrict spinal mobility, walking ability, and quality of life. For that reason, elderly patients with a variety of medical comorbidities pose a serious challenge to the choice of surgical methods of spinal surgeons. The conventional surgical technique for spinal pathology is open surgery.

However, postoperative sequelae and long recovery time related to surgical trauma have always been the major problems in spinal surgery. Consequently, the need for minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) is growing as the aging population is dramatically increasing and people pay more attention to quality-of-life issues.