Wirbelsäulenversteifung(Fusion)
Why can sometimes help a stiffening of the spine?
An advancing wear of the spine brings the height reduction often with an instability of the spine itself. The result is persistent back pain and some neurological symptoms. Then, when all conservative attempts have been exhausted and minimally invasive therapies promise more or no success has brought, then the restraint, ie, the stiffening of the painful spine section necessary.
How do I have to imagine a stiffening of the spine?
Depending on the location of the reinforcement, there are various means of access. The most common is from back in the lumbar spine. These screws through the vertebral arches with constant radiological control to advanced into the vertebral body. They are the anchor on a parallel rod system, which connects the vertebrae together and ruhigstellt. This procedure is a minimally invasive surgery alone also possible via the smallest incisions. Often, however, an extension of the operation to free from narrow nerve decompression is necessary. In addition, the discs are on the track stiffness usually removed, replaced by a placeholder, so-called cages and by endogenous or artificial bone material reaches the convergence of the vertebral bodies. At the cervical spine operation in most cases is carried out from the front. Instead of screws and rods in these cases, one plate is used. This procedure is particularly gentle, patients are usually back the next day already mobile.
What problems can occur after a spinal fusion?
A stiffening operation depending on the scale usually brings very good results. However, the result is in the course of years marred by the development of so-called connection instability. Here, the adjacent vertebral segments strained near the stiffening of charge and in turn cause backache
