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In this animated surgical video they describe the endoscopic medial branch nerve transection. This procedure address chronic low back pain due to facet degeneration. The surgery is performed by a spine surgeon under conscious sedation and only takes about 1 hour to complete. Patients go home about 1-2 hours later.

The surgery was invented and developed by our own DISC surgeon - Anthony Yeung, MD (retired). Similar to pain management procedure called a radiofrequency ablation. However, when comparing the surgical procedural verus the pain managment procedure the endoscopic medial branch transection was superior in that patients got up to 5 years of low back pain relief compared to 6-12 months with percutaneous radiofrequency ablation.

For more information on this procedure click here: https://www.sciatica.com/spine-treatm...

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Thank give special thanks to Arthrex Spine for the use of this animation: https://www.arthrexendoscopicspine.com/