Generally speaking, there are two primary objectives of a spine surgery. Fusion and/or Decompression. Spinal Fusion The goal…
Category: Minimally Invasive Surgery
Minimally invasive spine surgery refers to surgery performed on the back where the incision is smaller than an incision that you typically see with open surgeries. With endoscopic surgery the average incision is 7-10mm making it the ultimate in minimally invasive spine surgery.
What Does Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS) Mean? Part 2
What is Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery for? To clarify that that “minimally invasive” can refer to fusion surgery…
What Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Is NOT
The term minimally invasive gets thrown around by doctors a lot. The “invasiveness” of a procedure typically is…
What does Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS) Mean?
The term, “minimally invasive” is so vague that it really means nothing. There is no definition of what…
How minimal is “minimally invasive surgery”?
This a very interesting question and there are several answers. Minimally invasive spine surgery has many meanings to…