Microdiscectomy
Surgery specialists in NJ & FL

Sometimes conservative treatments aren’t successful and the next viable option is surgery. If you are seeing the results you need with your current non-surgical treatments, you may not be a candidate for a microdiscectomy. Most patients who receive this treatment have been experiencing pain for a minimum of six weeks with no results from conservative treatment. Surgeons and patients alike prefer a microdiscectomy to other more traditional options because: 

• A traditional open discectomy requires a larger incision than a microdiscectomy, which is often one-inch or less. 
• Traditional discectomies cut through the muscles, causing unnecessary damage and scarring, where as a microdiscectomy goes around the muscle to reduce trauma.
• Microdiscectomies are less risky than traditional discectomies.
• Because there is less damage and a smaller incision, recovery from a microdiscectomy is much faster and less painful than traditional disc surgery.
• A microdiscectomy procedure takes less time than a traditional discectomy. 

If you are experiencing pain from a damaged spinal disc, seek treatment sooner rather than later. See if you qualify for a microdiscectomy by trying our candidacy checker tool below.