Patients with disc protrusion, also known as a ruptured hernia or a hernia that has fallen into the canal, or in other words, sequestered disc herniation; These are patients who suffer from very severe or even unbearable arm or leg pain depending on the spinal area where the hernia is seen. Because the displaced disc crushes a nerve going to the arm or leg. Of course, these patients should be examined properly and operated after all necessary tests have been performed; It is necessary both to relieve the pain as soon as possible and to prevent the paralysis that occurs.
The structure that doctors call facet is actually the name of the joint between the spinal bones. This joint is a joint with a complex structure, just like the knee joint and hip joint. It also has a capsule, meniscus and joint fluid. It has been decades since prosthetics of hip and knee joints have been made, and these devices are fitted to many patients every day; However, with high technology, the prosthesis of the facet joint has still not been made, because it has a very delicate structure. The fluid inside this facet joint ballooning outwards causes a joint cyst similar to those seen in other joints. However, since this facet cyst in question presses on the nerve going to the leg; It causes a painful condition just like a herniated disc. The annoying part is that the only solution for this situation is surgery.
Among spinal pain, surgeries performed to treat pain caused by the forced movements of the spine during the day; Until a few years ago, fusion (freezing) surgeries, that is, surgeries in which the spinal bones were fused together, were preferred. When the movement was stopped with these procedures, which were performed using bone and screws and rods called platinum, the pain disappeared. However, recent research shows that the effect of this surgery is temporary; It turned out that the disease in question was transferred to the upper or lower spinal space and the patient had to undergo surgery again. Thereupon, in recent years, in surgeries performed to stop spinal movement; Motion-preserving surgery is preferred. In this method, the necessary movements of the spine are not stopped completely, but only restricted to a certain extent. In other words, movable screws, movable a portion of the spine using rods, disc prostheses; In other words, surgeries are performed that allow him to play as much as we allow.
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