Thoracic Stenosis Can Often Be Effectively Treated with Endoscopic Surgery
Foraminal stenosis in the thoracic area of the back is much less common than it is in the cervical or lumbar regions, which experience much more movement. Still, when it develops it can be incredibly painful and may be untreatable with conservative methods like physical therapy, traction, and anti-inflammatory medications. If you’ve found yourself in this position, you may want to speak with the experts at Laser Spine Institute. We treat sufferers of thoracic stenosis with a cutting edge surgery that it more successful than traditional open-back surgery and comes with many more benefits.
Those benefits include:
- No hospitalization. All LSI surgeries are completed in one of our outpatient surgery centers.
- No general anesthesia. LSI’s thoracic stenosis procedure is so gentle, it requires only local anesthesia and IV sedation.
- Only a small incision about a centimeter long. Traditional open-back surgery requires a much larger incision.
- Lower risk of infection. No hospitalization and a small incision significantly reduce the chance of infection.
Not to be overlooked, LSI’s procedures generally require only about two weeks of recovery. Within three months of surgery, LSI patients report that their quality of life has improved and some even feel better before they are off the operating table.
If this sounds like the type of thoracic stenosis surgery you’ve been looking for, contact LSI today. We’ll review your CT scan or MRI and let you know if our procedure will work for you.



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