Are about 15 million Italians suffering pains backbone? Among them stands out, as everybody now that knows, the goalkeeper Gigi Buffon, hit by slipped disc and forced to miss the football, just as one third of Italians are forced to suspend work.

Herniated disc discopathies in general and fractures In fact, are among the most normal causes of backache but not ever smoothly handled with physiotherapy and the drugs At times it becomes essential to resort to surgery.

For some years there are more and more polished surgical techniques and less invasive for patients, based on microsurgery percutaneous: we work with micro-incisions Of at most 1.5 cm , acting under radiological monitoring. it is the case of balloon kyphoplasty, which we already talked about Tanta salute helpful to repair fractured vertebrae after trauma, Osteoporosis or met static tumor.

But other spinal problems can be solved with this approach: ” The backbone as degenerative disc disease injuries or structural failure , for example, can be with success treated in selected cases , through an innovative percutaneous minimally invasive surgical process that makes it possible to recover an brilliant spatial anatomical- functional spinal column against a substantial reduction surgical trauma” Chioffi said Dr. Franco , Director of the Department of Neurosurgery Santa Chiara Hospital in Trento.

Until a few years past, in fact, interventions to stabilize vertebrae damaged transactions requiring “open” very extensive and invasive. Although, now that you can enter ever percutaneous, bars and connecting screws that stabilize the injured spinal segments. All this by limiting the attack muscle surrounding, reducing bleeding and post- surgical ache and shortening also hospital reside With scars less extensive and less risk of infections.

Percutaneous minimally invasive surgery has been around a few years and increasingly well-liked: “Each year the Province of Trento are performed around 400 surgeries for spinal disease which, for over half degenerative. The number of those treated with minimally invasive technique is growing, “concludes Chioffi.