Surgical replacement
of disc from your spine is done to relieve the nerves or the spinal
cord from the pressure of the slipped disc of your spine. The slipped
disc can happen anywhere in spine either in thoracic region, lumbar
region, or the cervical region.
In severe cases surgery is recommended.
The surgery carried out has two main purposes- removal or replacement
of the disc and to fuse the spinal vertebra joints. The surgery
carried out for cervical disc replacement is carried out for cervical
discectomy.
In medical terms its
called anterior cervical discectomy. In this surgery to carry out
cervical disc replacement, the laproscopic machine is inserted in the
cervical spine through an incision in front of the neck. When the
surgery machine reaches there, it is commanded to replace the slipped
disc and make the area free from exertion. After the cervical disc
replacement, the gap of the joint is maintained by using the
technique of bone graft. In bone graft method, small portion of bone
is taken from other part of the body and inserted into the area of
operation. The main purpose is to fuse the vertebra joints. The
fusing of the bones take its own time.
The cervical replacement of the discs
has some post operational complications. The most common complication
is pain in the site of the incision. Besides that clotting, fever,
redness in the area of incision etc are some of the minor symptoms
that gradually moves off with time. For this reason you need complete
supervision of a doctor after the surgery till 4-5 months when you
become perfectly fit. Even after that, you would be advised to make
careful movements of your neck and take precautions that you don't
exert pressure of any kind till six to eight months.
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