| lumbar spine fusion | | | | - The surgeon may make a cut through one side of |
| Alternative Names | | | | your belly (for surgery on your lower back). The |
| Vertebral interbody fusion; Posterior spinal fusion; | | | | surgeon will use tools called retractors to gently |
| Arthrodesis; Anterior spinal fusion; Spine surgery - | | | | separate, hold the soft tissues and blood vessels apart, |
| spinal fusion | | | | and have room to work. |
| Definition of Spinal fusion: | | | | - The surgeon may make the cut on the front of the |
| Spinal fusion is surgery to fuse spine bones | | | | neck, toward the side. |
| (vertebrae) that cause you to have back problems. | | | | Other surgery, such as a diskectomy, laminectomy, or |
| Fusing means two bones are permanently placed | | | | a foraminotomy, is almost always done first. |
| together so there is no longer movement between | | | | Please log on to :- |
| them. Spinal fusion is usually done along with other | | | | Please log on to :- |
| surgical procedures of the spine. | | | | We Care Core Values |
| Description: | | | | "We have a very simple business model that keeps |
| You will be asleep and feel no pain (general | | | | you as the centre." |
| anesthesia). | | | | Having the industry's most elaborate and exclusive |
| Your surgeon has several choices about where to | | | | Patient Care and Clinical Coordination teams stationed |
| make the incision (cut). | | | | at each partner hospital, we provide you the |
| - The surgeon may make an incision on your back or | | | | smoothest and seamless care ever imagined. With a |
| neck over the spine. You will be lying facedown on a | | | | ratio of one Patient Care Manager to five patients our |
| special table. Muscles and tissue are separated to | | | | patient care standards are unmatched across the sub |
| expose the spine. | | | | continent. |