Disc Herniation Treatment- Surgery Option For Herniated Disc Patient

May 31, 2009 3:11 pm admin Health

Disc herniation surgery is one of the disc herniation treatment option for the patients. According to the medical research, if you must have surgery for disc herniation-related back pain / sciatica, open discectomy or microdiscectomy may be the way to go . However, surgery is indicated only if conservative treatment has failed and/or if you have the danger signs associated with disc herniation: loss of bowl and/or bladder control (cauda equina syndrome); progressive worsening of the neurological state (root-related atrophying muscles, progressive muscle weakness [foot drop]); absent reflexes and/or a worsening of pain.

When to have the surgery is also critical in order to increase the chance of success (not so with fusion type surgeries). That is, you certainly don’t want to wait any longer than  1 year before having the surgery for disc-herniation related sciatica –three or four months is about all you should wait.