Spinal Fusion Surgery

Spinal fusion surgery is a complex and crucial procedure that requires highly trained and qualified doctors, excellent equipment, and proper post-op treatment to achieve a successful outcome. Spinal fusion surgery with LIFESPAN is done at affordable prices by some of India's top spinal surgeons.

Spinal Fusion Surgery

Fracture of vertebrae can heal without spinal fusion surgery, but in a few cases Surgery is carried out, if the fracture is unstable.
Deformities in the spine like Scoliosis or Kyphosis
Degenerative disc disease and herniated disc
Spondylolisthesis where a vertebra slips onto the one below. It causes severe pain in the back and legs with numbness of the lower limbs.

How To Treat Spinal Fusion Surgery?

Different types of spinal fusion surgeries are commonly available, like

Posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) creates space between two vertebrae and fusion achieved with help of bone grafting and implants.

Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) is the same as PILF. The only difference is that the spine is approached from the front.

Trans-foraminal lumbar inter-body fusion

Posterolateral gutter fusion

Extreme Lateral Inter-body Fusion (XLIF) .

Multilevel Spinal Fusion: Lumbar spinal fusion surgery is the most effective procedure for problems involving one segment of the spinal vertebra as the movement improves with this. For some cases of pain, two levels can be fused though it places a lot of pressure on the remaining joints. Three or more levels of fusion are done in cases of scoliosis and lumbar deformity.

ACDF: Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion is used to relieve cervical disc herniation symptoms like spinal cord and nerve root pressure and associated numbness, pain, and tingling. The disc is removed with the fusion surgery in the ACDF procedure. It can also be done for cervical degenerative disc disease and for more levels of the cervical spine.

Do I need a Spinal fusion surgery?

Fusion surgery is also done in the case of degenerative disc disease Spondylolisthesis (ischemic, degenerative, and post-laminectomy spondylolisthesis).
Fusion surgery is also recommended to treat damaged and defective spine due to infection or spinal tumor, fractures, scoliosis, or any other deformity.
The right candidate for spinal fusion surgery is someone who is otherwise in good physical condition who can tolerate the Surgery well.

How is Spinal fusion surgery performed?

Spinal fusion surgery is performed by inserting bone graft between the two vertebral bodies, which allows them to grow together into one long bone.
The bone graft can be obtained either from the patient's own body (known as auto-graft) or from a cadaver (allograft) or from a human-made plastic or ceramic graft.
The selection of the correct type of procedure to infuse the bone graft depends on the nature and location of the disease

What is Bone Grafting?

Any spinal fusion Surgery includes bone grafts to help bones to conjoin. Bone grafts promote bone healing and allow the vertebrae to merge into a solid bone or even serve as structural strength for larger bone grafts. .
A graft from one's own body is called an auto graft. Another type of graft is typically acquired through a bone bank called cadaver bone graft. Immobilization of supports, pins, rods, screws is used to protect the bone and to facilitate the healing process of internal fixation.

Multiple Level Spinal Fusion Surgery?

Lumbar spinal fusion surgery is most successful under the circumstances involving only one vertebral section because, at one point, the patient does not experience any restriction of mobility after fusion.
Fusing two layers, if possible, is a reasonable option for treating pain. Nevertheless, spinal fusion can cause excessive pressure throughout the remaining spinal joints for more than two points, causing pain at other levels. Three or more levels of fusion, such as scoliosis and lumbar deformity are recommended only in rare cases.

Cervical Spine fusion surgery

it is been done for patients with disc prolapse with severe radiculopathy, and with patients with severe canal stenosis due to degenerative changes. Cervical spine fusion surgery is also done to treat cancer, tumour, or other spinal deformities.

Expected Results

Spinal fusion surgery is successful in alleviating the debilitating pain. The long-term success of spinal fusion depends on several factors such as the skill of the surgeon, appropriate patient choice, patient with a healthy lifestyle (non-smoker and non-obese) willing to seek recovery, and reconstruction of spinal functions.

What is Lumbar Spine Fusion Surgery?

Lumbar fusion surgery is done our experience orthopedic surgeon to relieve the patient from low back pain that radiates to the hip and legs.

Various types of spinal fusion surgeries in India that LIFESPAN can assist you with include:

Posterolateral gutter fusion requires proximity to the back of the spine.
Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) involves the same technique as TLIF or PLIF except that the spine is accessed from the front.
From both the back and the front, anterior/posterior spinal fusion is accessed.