Treatments
How does it work?
Aim, requirements, alternatives, procedure, risks and aftercare. Only what we actually offer.
Second opinion before spine surgery
If you have been advised to have an operation on your spine, you have the right to a second medical opinion. We look at your scans, examine you…
Thoracic spine · Cervical spine · Lumbar spineExamination and diagnosis
At the beginning stand the detailed consultation and the physical and neurological examination — in the great majority of cases they show the direction before any image is…
Cervical spine · Lumbar spinePRT (periradicular therapy)
In periradicular therapy, an anaesthetic together with a corticosteroid is injected under image guidance precisely at an irritated nerve root. It can relieve radiating pain from a herniated…
Cervical spine · Lumbar spineMicrosurgical decompression
In microsurgical decompression, whatever presses on a nerve root or on the dural sac is removed under the operating microscope — prolapsed disc tissue or constricting bone. It…
Cervical spine · Lumbar spineSpinal fusion and cage implantation
In a spinal fusion, vertebrae are connected with screws and rods or with a cage as a spacer so that they grow together as bone. It comes into…
Thoracic spine · Lumbar spineKyphoplasty
In a kyphoplasty, a fractured vertebral body is raised with a balloon and stabilised with bone cement. It comes into consideration in osteoporotic vertebral fractures when severe pain…
Sacroiliac jointSI joint fusion (fusion of the sacroiliac joint)
In an SI joint fusion, the sacroiliac joint is bridged and shut down through a short approach at the side of the buttock, using screws or triangular titanium…
Thoracic spine · Cervical spine · Lumbar spineSpecial pain therapy
Chronic pain needs a plan of its own: a pain history, classification of the type of pain, and a combination of movement, physiotherapy, explanation, relaxation and medication used…
Thoracic spine · Cervical spine · Lumbar spineAftercare and rehabilitation
After an operation on the spine the rule is: into movement early, into load slowly. This page describes building up load, wound checks and physiotherapy after decompression, spinal…
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