The surgical therapeutic option for regeneration of pain causing degenerative lumbar disks.

If back pain lasts more than 6 weeks it is considered chronic. Every chronification of pain is a challenge for the treating physician. If conservative treatment options – like physiotherapy, electro- or thermal therapy, and analgesic pain management - do not relieve symptoms within 6 to 8 weeks, ...

Under the direction of APEX SPINE a team of internationally trained physiotherapists, manual therapists, chiropractors, ostheopaths and massage therapists is at your disposal. All therapists are able to determine right from the start the adequate therapeutic procedure and directly apply necessary treatments.

Aim of balloon kyphoplasty is to re-erect and stabilize a compressed vertebral body. This is important as otherwise micro movements will irritate the periosteum (the membrane that lines the outer surface of all bones) and this is a main cause of severe pain. The intervention is carried out in a position such that the curvature of the spine is already leading to erection and decompression of the vertebral body.

The “safe-catheter” therapy has proved very efficient for smaller disk herniations causing very severe back or leg pain, for patients suffering from scarring after a discectomy and for minor degenerative spinal stenoses.

A spinal fusion (fusion and / or stiffening surgery) should always be considered as a last step, since this is an irreversible surgical Eingiff.