Treatment of lower back pain (PLDD Therapy)

Seishinkai Koriyama Seiran Hospital
URL http://en.seiran.or.jp/

PLDD is one of the lower back pain treatments. we will explain about its contents, features and the procedure of treatments.

◆The Features of PLDD
・hardly bleeding
・Local anesthesia
・Surgery takes about 15 minutes per spot
・Almost no scar will remain
・No hospitalization needed after surgery
・Not suitable for all types of herniation
・Improvement rate is approximately 80% (Numbness in lower limb may remains)
・In some cases, multiple courses of treatment are required
・There is a possibility of causing a reactive radiculitis, intervertebral disc inflammation or infection in the rare thermal stimulation.