Causes Of Back Pain: Nerve Compression

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What is it?
Any pressure placed on the spinal nerves as they branch off the spinal cord can cause compression.

How it causes pain:
This often results in pain or numbness radiating into the arms or legs. This is sometimes called radicular pain and in the low back/leg may sometimes be called sciatica. Nerve compression can occur at any level of the spine. This pressure can result from disc protrusions or herniations, bone spurs, scar tissue, spinal instrumentation, tumors, infection or cysts.

Can it be fixed?
There are some different innovative techniques to relieve Nerve Compression, depending on its cause.

How can it be treated?:
Specially trained physicians can perform a minimally invasive endoscopic procedure to relieve nerve compression. One specific procedure is the AccuraScope Discectomy and Neural Decompression Procedure. This procedure allows highly trained physicians to enter the spinal canal through a natural opening in the spine and track an endoscope, laser, and other tools longitudinally up the canal. By this, the physician is allowed unparalleled diagnostic capability ...
... and the ability to repair multiple levels of the spine with just one procedure. In addition, it allows the patient to avoid open back surgery.

Lawrence B. Rothstein is a graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and The Ohio State University School of Medicine (1987). He completed his internship, residency in Anesthesia, and fellowship in Interventional Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic where he was named Chief Fellow. He is board certified in Anesthesia and Pain Medicine.