What is a minimally invasive spine surgery?
An endoscopic procedure that uses advanced video cameras and instruments that are passed through small incisions (less than 2 cm) in the back, chest or abdomen to reach the spine and perform the required surgery is minimally invasive spine surgery . For many decades, endoscopic procedures have been used, mostly for diagnostic purposes only. Endoscopic methods were developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s so that both a diagnosis could be made and the disease could be treated. These same endoscopic procedures have also been advanced for the treatment of spine conditions used in other surgical disciplines. However, not every patient is a candidate for a minimally invasive spine surgery approach. You need to be thoroughly examined by a surgeon competent and trained in these minimally invasive procedures for spine surgery to see whether you are a candidate for this approach to spinal tumours, deformity, trauma, or degenerative disease. What are the conditions that are suitable? Minimal