Christian Yelich was in good spirits after undergoing a microdiscectomy, a procedure designed to alleviate pain and nerve issues in the patient's back. He did not, however, want to dig too deeply ...

Microdiscectomy is a procedure to treat a herniated disk. A surgeon cuts out a section of the spinal disk to relieve pressure on a nerve, using microscopic techniques to reduce the impact of the ...

They can perform the surgery in a couple of ways: An open diskectomy is done with a cut in your back or neck. Microdiscectomy is done through a much smaller cut. Your surgeon inserts a thin tube ...

single-level UBE or tubular lumbar microdiscectomy surgery at a high-volume institution. Data were included for 102 patients: 48 undergoing UBE and 54 tubular lumbar microdiscectomy. The ...

Background Lumbar disc herniation has a prevalence of up to 58% in the athletic population. Lumbar discectomy is a common surgical procedure to alleviate pain and disability in athletes. We ...