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Health in Focus: Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

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“I could barely walk 100 feet from my barn back to the house,” explained Dave Wurster. He is one of the many patients that has undergone minimally invasive spine surgery at . “Now, I’m hunting again, and doing everything. My hat’s off to all the staff, it’s like a miracle”. 

Minimally invasive surgery is a combination of fluoroscopy using x-ray guidance, along with preoperative x-ray imaging, such as an MRI. “Instead of doing a traditional approach which could be a large incision, with minimally invasive procedures this incision is smaller, and can lead to faster recovery times,” said . He added that it could also be used for many surgeries like lumbar disc herniations to more complicated surgeries.

In Dave’s case, he had a combination of bone spurs that were causing pressure on the nerves, along with some displacement of a couple of vertebrae.  “Dr. Jagannathan walked me through the whole process, and gave me options on what I can do and what not to do after surgery”.

To learn more about minimally invasive spine surgery at Jagannathan Neurosurgery, . 

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