Discectomy

Discectomy is surgery to remove all or part of a cushion that helps protect your spinal column. These cushions, called disks, separate your spinal bones (vertebrae).

When one of your disks herniates (moves out of place), the soft gel inside pushes through the wall of the disk. The disk may then place pressure on the spinal cord and nerves that are coming out of your spinal column

Average Result

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7 Results

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Top Helpful Cases

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Lower Back Pain

I had severe lower back pain after slipping on a patch of ice. I fell on what I called by tail bone. The initial pain that I had was in my lower back. After a few days I started to have pain shooting down my left leg. I also started to have muscle spasms in my lower and upper back. ...

Healed

Lower back pain solved with discectomy surgery

I started having mild lower backpain one night in Marchwhich I did not think was bad at all. In a couple of days it got much worse and was going down my leg and into my foot. I went to a doctor who did some tests and then referred me to a neurologist. After an MRI and myelogram, he decided ...

Helped a lot

Sciatic Pain

I had aherniated disk because of the trauma. The pain was radiating, it went into the left leg. The doctors tried pain killers, cortisone injections, ice packs, physical therapy...nothing helped. So the surgery was performed and it was successful.

Discectomy is Used For These Conditions

Area	Condition	Average Result	Healed	Helped a Lot	No Change
	All Conditions (average)	4.0 (7)	2	4	1
Back Lower (Lumbar)	Back Lower (Lumbar) Herniated Disk	4.0 (4)	2	1	1
Back Lower (Lumbar)	Back Lower (Lumbar) Pain	4.0 (1)		1
Back Lower (Lumbar)	Back Lower (Lumbar) Sciatica	4.0 (1)		1
Back Upper - Neck (Cervical)	Back Upper - Neck (Cervical) Herniated Disk	4.0 (1)		1

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