Foraminal Stenosis Symptoms Can Often Be Minimized or Even Eliminated With Laser Spine Surgery
Foraminal stenosis sufferers can experience symptoms that range in severity from numbness and tingling to throbbing back and neck pain that radiates in to the limbs. At its very worst, it can severely limit your activities. Going to work, playing golf, or walking the dog can be just too painful to continue with foraminal stenosis symptoms. You can even lose bladder and bowel control. If you’re experiencing these painful effects, you’ve likely been to the doctor and gotten even worse news. While your doctor may be able to alleviate your symptoms, the treatment he or she is suggesting, a laminectomy, sounds scary and comes with a host of potential complications. During this procedure, a surgeon cuts away a portion of the affected vertebrae and removes the built up tissue that’s squeezing one of the nerves as it exits your spinal canal. While that relieves the foraminal stenosis symptoms, it can cause other problems including a return to pain from scar tissue or a shifting of stress on the spine resulting from the fusion. Fortunately, there’s another solution for this back problem: laser spine surgery from the Florida-based Laser Spine Institute.
It reduces your foraminal stenosis symptoms and serves as a better alternative to traditional back surgery by:
- Requiring no hospital stay. LSI’s surgery is so gentle and minimally invasive it’s conducted on an outpatient basis. Patients only need to visit the LSI surgery center for short appointments for 4 or 5 days before they are allowed to return to their hometowns and continue healing.
- Utilizing only one small incision. This tiny, skin deep cut doesn’t damage muscle tissue meaning recovery is quicker and easier on the body. It also means that the chance of infection is dramatically reduced.
- Requiring only local anesthesia and IV sedation. This reduces the complications and physical impact associated with general anesthesia.
- Providing quick relief. Often times our patients report an improvement in their foraminal stenosis symptoms while they are still on the operating table. More than 85% say that their quality of life has improved within three months of the surgery.
If you’re interested in reducing or completely eliminating your foraminal stenosis symptoms through laser spine surgery, contact LSI today. We’ll review your CT scan or MRI for free to determine if you are a good candidate for our procedure.



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