One of the diseases most commonly confused with a herniated disc or lumbar disc herniation
is sacro-iliac joint failure. What is meant by this disease is that the joint between the coccyx bone and the pelvis moves more than it should. Unfortunately, this disease occurs in most of the patients who underwent surgery hastily and did not benefit from the surgery.
Because the surgeon can only suspect this disease during a detailed examination.
If the decision to have surgery is made without such a thorough examination. , it is inevitable that the sacroiliac joint insufficiency we mentioned
has been overlooked.
Unfortunately, there is no special
test that the surgeon can perform to confirm this suspicion, all he has to do is inject a numbing drug into that joint, that is, sacro
/> is to perform an iliac block test. If this test is positive, the surgery that should be performed is sacro-iliac joint fusion; In other words, adding some instruments means immobilizing them by placing platinum, as it is popularly known. Nowadays, this
procedure can be performed by experienced neurosurgeons as a closed surgery.
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