AccuraScope Procedures Help Lumbar Herniated Discs and Back Pain

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) are very common when sustained in serious vehicle accidents. TBIs can involve damage to many areas of the brain and spinal cord that generates long-term disabilities and in some cases death. New advances in medical technologies, such as the AccuraScope lumbar noninvasive spinal surgery, are improving the outcome of brain injuries to help people to live pain-free.

If you’ve been in a motorcycle accident, truck accident, pedestrian, or car accident and your accident were caused by the carelessness of another person you should immediately contact an experienced personal injury lawyer. Our Ohio-based attorneys at the Chester Law Group will assist you in what you need to do to protect your rights and possibly learn about new medical breakthroughs. Call us at 800-218-4243 today.

Vehicle accidents can leave behind permanent brain and body damage and in particular traumatic brain damage (TBI). Fortunately, advances in medical techniques are developing ways to allow for complete recovery depending on the seriousness of your injury.

 

AccuraScope Procedure Details

The newest of spinal technologies is known as the AccuraScope Procedure. This spinal procedure has has the ability to remove spinal pressure due to herniated discs as well as remove scar tissue from previous surgeries. This procedure is minimally invasive and is used to diagnose and treat lumbar discs, spinal stenosis, and many other problems to reduce and cure your back pain. This procedure is simple and involves using a live X-ray for guidance, a tiny incision through the skin at the base of the spine, a fiber-optic scope, and a laser tube.

Physicians can insert this system through the incision and travel inside the spinal canal and actually see in great detail both sides of the spinal canal and observe any tears, ruptures, herniations, bulges, and scar tissue as well as other spinal abnormalities. Since they have a clear picture of where the problem is, they can actually diagnose the source of the pain.

MRI scans can’t come close to this as they lack in fine detail and often obscure the damaged area. Making use of a laser, the doctor can cut away a bulge in a disc which then seals itself removing pressure on your nerves, hence removing pain. If scar tissue is observed, the laser can be used to remove the scar. The whole procedure takes about 30 to 40 minutes to complete and most patients report immediate pain relief. Patients are placed in a recovery room and are usually discharged after one hour.

Generally, patients can walk the same day as their procedure and can begin physical therapy exercises the next day and can return to work within a week.

 

Benefits of the AccuraScope Procedure

The AccuraScope procedure has many benefits over other procedures simply because it is minimally invasive. The benefits involved include:

  • A tiny incision at the base of the spine (about a quarter of an inch)
  • A physician can actually diagnose the cause and source of your pain because they are looking directly at it
  • Early treatment
  • Generally produces immediate pain relief
  • Low incidence for recurrence of your problem
  • Minimal scarring
  • Lowers the risk of damage to your muscles, bone, nerves and blood vessels relative to other surgical procedures
  • Rapid recovery

If you’ve been in an accident and been injured, then you probably know there are a wide range of treatment options. The medical community has a standard course of therapies that should be followed for various pathologies. Even so, before you consider a surgical option, you should usually have tried other more conservative therapies. Such therapies involve massage, physical therapy, chiropractic alternatives, epidural anti-inflammatory injections, and other pain management protocols. With severe spinal trauma, conservative therapies work for short periods. In fact, your back problems can worsen. Conservative approaches generally treat the symptoms and not the underlying cause. If conservative therapies are not relieving your back pain, it may be time to consider some form of surgical alternative.

One form of spinal surgery is known as open spine surgery. Research suggests that these surgeries are very high risk with very low success rates. Adverse side effects include long, painful recovery times, and damage to the skin, muscle, ligaments, bone, blood vessels, nerves, and normal disc tissues. In general, you get weakening of the spine by damaging all of its supporting structures. Open spine surgery causes scarring of tissue and should be considered the surgery of last resort. The reason for open surgery complications is due to the fact that they use an MRI to find where your problem is. MRI’s have a very poor resolution and quite often don’t pick up the lesion. Even though open spine surgery is risky, there are cases where it is warranted. If you have severe structural problems due to trauma or a congenital defect you might require the internal placement of pins, screws, or other hardware. Obviously, open surgery is necessary.

Advances in medical procedures are moving away from invasive therapies such as open spine surgery to relatively non-invasive treatments. There are many different surgeries that are classified as minimally invasive and make use of vastly different therapies. It is important to learn the differences so that you can make the right decision for your particular case. As always, check with your physician to see if the AccuraScope procedures are right for you.

If you’ve been in an accident and suffered a brain/spinal injury that was caused by the carelessness of another person, you must immediately contact an experienced personal injury lawyer. Personal injury law firms are experienced in vehicle accidents involving spinal/brain injuries and can guide you through a personal injury settlement.

Once you have a personal injury lawyer on your side, they will assist in making the right decision for you.

Call the personal injury lawyers at Chester Law Group today at 800-218-4234, and get the help you want from people that you can trust.