Lumbar Spine Surgery Percutaneous Endoscopic Discectomy patient education movies. This movie illustrates the technique for performing a percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy. This movie shows patient positioning, skin preparation, local anesthetic injection, cannula insertion, the removal of some nucleus material, herniation retraction, the annuloplasty, patient education movies.
Sudden trauma or gradual degeneration can weaken the annulus fibrosis or wall of the intervertebral disc. This can then bulge outwards, forming a disc protrusion or a contained disc herniation. The pressure of the bulge against the surrounding structures causes back pain and the pressure against the nerve root causes leg pain.
Percutaneous discectomy is a minimally invasive disc decompression technique which is performed through a needle. The discectomy removes some nucleus material from the intervertebral disc. Lumbar Spine Surgery Percutaneous Endoscopic Discectomy patient education movies.
