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Osteoarthritis of the Spine Symptoms May be Treatable at Laser Spine Institute

In the spine, osteoarthritis often manifests as stiffness, pain, swelling and a reduced range of motion. If you are living with these symptoms, you’ll want to visit your doctor for an accurate diagnosis and care plan.  To reduce your pain, your doctor may suggest a wide variety of treatments including physical therapy, over-the-counter medications, chiropractic care, hot and cold compresses or exercises designed to support the affected joints and surrounding tissue. If your spine osteoarthritis is very severe, your doctor may recommend steroid injections to reduce inflammation, or even a surgical procedure. If surgery is broached, you may want to get a second opinion about treatments offered at Laser Spine Institute (LSI).

While there is no cure for arthritis, LSI often can help reduce the pain of osteoarthritis spine symptoms with a number of different outpatient procedures, including:

• Foraminotomy: this procedure opens up the foramen (a passageway through each vertebrae from the spinal canal to the rest of the body) to relieve pressure on nerve tissue.
• Facet thermal ablation: used specifically for facet arthritis, this procedure cleans out the facet joint, removing tissue that compresses nerves.
• Laminotomy: A surgeon uses this procedure to remove a portion of the lamina, a bony plate on each vertebrae that protects the spinal cord, to create more room for nerve tissue.

All of these procedures are performed using endoscopic techniques, meaning that instead of cutting the back open and pulling back muscle and tissue to see the affected joints, a narrow tube is used to access the procedure site. This allows for a much smaller incision, no muscle damage and a reduced risk of infection.

If you’d like to learn more about these procedures and their many benefits, contact Laser Spine Institute (LSI) today. We’ll review your MRI or CT scan and let you know if any of our treatments for osteoarthritis of the spine are right for you.