Endoscopic Decompression Spine

After alternative measures have been exhausted, surgical intervention may be necessary in circumstances of exacerbated pain or neurological deficits. In spite of good therapeutic results from conventional operations, consecutive damage may result from traumatization. Therefore, it is important to optimize the spine procedures. The aim in this process of continuous improvement is to minimize the trauma induced by the operation and negative long-term effects while observing existing quality standards.

Minimally invasive techniques allow tissue damage and its consequences to be reduced. Endoscopic operations carried out during a continuous flow of fluid demonstrate advantages which these procedures standard practice in many areas. Full endoscopic surgery on the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine provides and adequate and safe complement or alternative to conventional surgery. A change is taking place for the first time as a result of the latest technical developments and new access passages, which appears to be the start of a radical new departure comparable with the establishment of arthroscopic procedures in joints. The development of full endoscopic methods should not be evaluated as a replacement of existing standard operations but as complimentary procedure and alternative within the overall concept of spine surgery.