Open two "keyhole holes" on the waist, and the doctor helps the eighty old man to relieve the pain

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan client on September 19th news 80 -year -old people suffer from severe lumbar spinal stenosis. Conservative treatment cannot relieve the pain, and the surgery is afraid that the body will not be able to bear it. Last week, Liu Weijun, the chief team of the spine surgery of Wuhan Fourth Hospital, opened two small holes in the waist of the elderly. It relieved the pain through the minimally invasive lumbar single -sided dual -channel endoscopy technology.

Grandma Li, 87, lives in Xiantao, Hubei. He usually has a tough body. But in the past year, the elderly began to be sore with their waist and legs, and the injections did not improve. A few steps of right legs were painful and numb. She looked around the local hospital, and the conservative treatment effect was not ideal. The doctor suggested performing traditional surgery and needed 4 vertebral bow root nails for lumbar fusion surgery. To this end, the family came to Wuhan Fourth Hospital (Wuhan Orthopedic Hospital) to ask Director Liu Weijun, a spine surgery for help.

Director Liu Weijun found that Grandma Li was lumbar spinal stenosis with lumbar disc herniation. The area of ​​lumbar spinal canal was compressed to one -sixth of the normal area. Director Liu explained to Grandma Li: Such a severe lumbar spinal stenosis requires nails in accordance with the traditional surgical scheme, but now we can not nail and use minimally invasive ways. I heard that Grandma Li and his family were readily accepted through minimally invasive instead.

The doctor directed Grandma Li for rehabilitation training. Correspondent Jing Tong Cai Lei

In less than an hour of surgery, the doctor opened two small incisions on the waist of the elderly. The bone of the bone expands the lumbar spinal canal, the spinal canal decompression is performed, and the intraductial seductive marrow nucleus is removed. At the same time, the bilateral nerve compression is lifted. That night, the pain and numbness of Grandma Li's waist and legs disappeared for a year, and Grandma Li could walk down the day after the operation.

"Compared to traditional surgery, a large incision and implantation in the root of the vertebral arch are required, and minimally invasive surgery can greatly reduce patient damage in the process of solving the pain and help patients recover soon." Director Liu Weijun introduced that lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spine spine spine spine For common lumbar spine diseases such as tube stenosis, doctors will adopt different treatment plans according to different condition -for simple lumbar disc herniation, generally use intervertebral poroscopy surgery; Channel spine endoscopic surgery; for problems such as lumbar spine instability, lumbar spine slip or spine side bending, and backlash convex, you can use the lumbar spine rod system for lumbar spine fusion surgery. (Changjiang Daily reporter Wuye Correspondent Jing Tong Cai Lei)

[Edit: Yu Lina]

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