Thoughts on spinal neurosurgery, degenerative cervical and lumbar spine, minimally invasive and endoscopic spine surgery, and more.
An MRI report of a lumbar spine (and to a similar extent, the entire spine) is one of the more alarming documents a person can read about themselves. There is a scene most spine surgeons will recognise.
Read article →"Endoscopic" is one of those words that arrives in a consulting room already carrying more promise than it can reasonably deliver. Patients hear it and think "easier".
Read article →Spinal surgery has a reputation problem, and a good deal of it is deserved. Not because the operations do not work - many of them work very well - but because the results are more variable than in most other areas of surgery, and that variability is not always explained to people before they consent to having their procedure.
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