When you think of spine surgery, you may envision a large incision in your back and months of painful recovery. This isn’t necessarily the case any longer. In many cases, minimally invasive techniques are now able to cut roughly in half the length of a hospital stay and recovery time required after spine surgery.
What exactly is minimally invasive spine surgery?
First, let’s look at how back surgery was traditionally performed, and how some procedures are still performed. In what is called “open” surgery, the surgeon makes an incision, perhaps 5-6 inches long...
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