What is Cervical Spine Surgery?
The goal of Cervical Spine Surgery is to relieve pain, numbness, tingling and weakness, restore nerve function and stop or prevent abnormal motion in the spine. Your surgeon does this by removing a disc or a bone and fusing the vertebrae together with a bone graft either in front of or behind the spine. The bone graft may be one of two types - An autograft (bone taken from your body) or an allograft (bone from a bone bank). Sometimes metal plates, screws or wires are also used to further stabilize the spine. These techniques are called instrumentation. When the vertebrae have been surgically stabilized, abnormal motion is stopped and function is restored to the spinal nerves.
What are the Reasons for Cervical Spine Surgery?
Cervical spine surgery may be indicated for a variety of Cervical Spine Problems. Generally, surgery may be performed for degenerative disorders, trauma or instability. These conditions may produce pressure on the spinal cord or on the nerves coming from the spine.
What Conditions are treated with Cervical Spine Surgery?
Degenerative Disease - In degenerative disease the discs or cushion pads between your vertebrae shrink, causing wearing of the disc, which may lead to herniation. You may also have arthritic areas in your spine. This degeneration can cause pain, numbness, tingling and weakness from the pressure on the spinal nerves.
What are the Potential Complications of Cervical Spine Surgery?
As with any operation, there are risks involved with Cervical Spine Surgery. Possible complications include injury to your spinal cord, nerves, esophagus, carotid artery or vocal cords; non-healing of the bony fusion; failure to improve; instrumentation breakage and/or failure; infection; bone graft site pain. Any of these complications may lead to more surgery. Other complications may include phlebitis in your legs, blood clots in the lungs or urinary problems. Rare complications include paralysis and possibly death. Your doctor will discuss potential risks with you before asking you to sign a consent form.
Why choose India?
The reason why people prefer Cervical Spine Surgery in India as that it has become a spine treatment hub. The cost at Indian hospitals is much less, almost one-third of those in other Asian countries. India is one of the best places for the medical treatment. India is giving Thailand stiff competition in healthcare services for overseas patients with cost of surgery lower by over 30% and in fact cheapest in entire Southeast Asia. Medical tourism in fast emerging as a big opportunity for India with its low cost advantage, high quality healthcare providers and an English speaking populace. Spine surgery is available at various hospitals in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore at a reasonable price. Indian corporate hospitals are at par with that in America and European Countries. In addition to the increasingly top class medical care, a big draw for foreign patients is also there with zero waiting list. In fact, priority treatment is provided today in Indian hospitals
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