Spinal Cord and Surgery

Lumbar decompression surgery is a type of surgery used to treat compressed nerves in the lower (lumbar) spine. It's only recommended when non-surgical treatments haven't helped. The surgery aims to improve symptoms such as persistent pain and numbness in the legs caused by pressure on the nerves in the spine.

spinal stenosis – narrowing of a section of the spinal column, which puts pressure on the nerves inside a slipped disc and sciatica – where a damaged spinal disc presses down on an underlying nerve spinal injuries – such as a fracture or the swelling of tissue metastatic spinal cord compression – where cancer in one part of the body, such as the lungs, spreads into the spine and presses on the spinal cord or nerves