| India offers Lumber laminectomy with medical | | | | bony ring that encloses the spinal canal. Surgeons |
| tourism in Asia. Medical tourism is India's leading | | | | may remove bone spurs from the facet joints along |
| healthcare service providers which offer excellent | | | | the back of the spine during the Lumber laminectomy |
| health care facilities to foreign patients. They offer | | | | procedure, taking pressure off the spinal nerves. |
| spine surgery in India with expert surgeons. Medical | | | | What happens during Lumber laminectomy operation? |
| tourism assures that the surgery costs in India are | | | | During Lumber laminectomy surgery, usually you will |
| very less as compared to countries like USA or UK. | | | | be placed in a kneeling position to reduce the weight |
| The foreign patients who come to India for | | | | of your abdomen on your spine. The surgeon will |
| treatment saves about 50-60% of money in surgery. | | | | make a straight incision over the desired vertebrae |
| Lumber laminectomy in India is conducted in cities like | | | | and down to the lamina, the bony arches of your |
| Mumbai and Delhi, which has some of the finest spine | | | | vertebrae. The doctor removes the ligament joining |
| surgery hospitals. | | | | the vertebrae along with all or part of the lamina. The |
| What is Lumber laminectomy? | | | | goal is to see the involved nerve root. The doctor |
| Lumbar laminectomy is a surgical procedure to relieve | | | | pulls the nerve root back towards the centre of your |
| pressure on the spinal nerves. Degeneration or wear | | | | spinal column and removes the disk or part of the |
| and tear, in the parts of the spine may narrow the | | | | disk. The doctor closes the incision. Your large back |
| spinal canal. This puts pressure on the nerves in the | | | | muscle now protects your spine or nerve roots. The |
| canal. This condition is called spinal stenosis. A | | | | surgery takes 1-3 hours. You lose very little blood. |
| laminectomy involves removing a section of the bony | | | | What happen after Lumber laminectomy surgery? |
| covering over the back of the spinal canal. This takes | | | | Patients are usually able to get out of bed within a |
| pressure off the spinal nerves. Lumbar laminectomy is | | | | few hours after Lumber laminectomy surgery. |
| a surgical procedure most often performed to treat | | | | However, you will be instructed to move your back |
| leg pain related to herniated discs, spinal stenosis and | | | | very carefully and comfortably. Patients are able to |
| other related conditions. Stenosis occurs as people | | | | return home when their medical condition is stable. |
| age and the ligaments of the spine thicken and | | | | Most patients leave the hospital the day after |
| harden, discs bulge, bones and joints enlarge and | | | | surgery. They are safe to drive within a week or |
| bone spurs or osteophytes form. | | | | two. People generally get back to light work by four |
| What parts of the spine are involved in Lumber | | | | weeks. Heavier work and sports should wait two to |
| laminectomy surgery? | | | | three months. Workers whose jobs involve strenuous |
| Surgeons perform Lumbar laminectomy surgery | | | | manual labour may be counseled to consider different |
| through an incision in the low back. The surgery | | | | work. Outpatient physical therapy usually starts four |
| involves the pedicle and lamina bones. These bones | | | | to six weeks after Lumber laminectomy surgery. |
| attach to the back of the spinal column, forming a | | | | |