Spinal Cord Surgery. Many things can compress the spinal cord. This is the most common surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis.
Decompressing the spine ie spinal cord stabilizing the spine. Spinal decompression surgery covers several different surgeries that all have the same goal to relieve the symptoms of spinal nerve compression. After the spinal cord stops in the lower thoracic spine the nerve roots from the lumbar and sacral levels come off the bottom of the cord like a horse s tail named the cauda equina and exit the spine.
Among the most common types of spinal cord injury treatment options aim to treat spinal stenosis a condition that involves the narrowing or compression of the vertebrae that make up the spine thereby compressing or impeding the spinal cord.
The spinal cord does not run through the lumbar spine lower back. Spinal nerve compression refers to pressure on the spinal cord or spinal nerve roots. This is the most common surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis. Anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion or acdf for short is a type of surgery that s done to treat a pinched nerve or spinal cord compression.
