Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
MISS core values are: faster recovery, minimize complications, early return to work and regain all activities. The patient’s experience in spine surgery should be less painful and early mobilisation, these are the premise of MISS techniques development.
The conventional spinal surgery is to strip the muscles from the bone, expose the neural elements by unroofing the spinal vertebrae before you can achieve the goals. This entails soft tissue injury, bleeding and more scarring. The current techniques of minimally invasive spine surgery addresses this concern and tremendously improves the whole experience of recovery.
The MISS techniques are keyhole operations. It is a range of endoscopy, tube-microscopy, percutaneous screw fixation and currently, extreme lateral interbody fusion. There are a myriad of spinal diseases with different solutions. It can be as simple as decompression to long spinal fixations. Spinal pathologies that can be done through minimally invasive techniques are, but not limited to Discectomy, Lumbar Fusion, stabilization for spine trauma, spinal tumors, adult scoliosis and some spinal infections.
Patients’ experience in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery is incomparable to conventional surgery. Patients would immediately feel the relief of pains, more mobile and functional.