Laminectomy, the surgeon explained to me, is a surgical procedure in which the affected disk (causing the lower back pain) is "fixed": the surgeon cuts away the part that protrudes and presses on the nerve(s). It involves a so called "key hole operation", which means that the surgeon makes a small vertical incision (about 5 cm) and carries out the operation via a telescope that is inserted via the incision. It means no cutting of mussels (so shorter recovery time) and an operation time of two to three hours, under full narcosis.
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