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Facet Disease Surgery: Top Reasons Why You Should Choose LSI for Minimally Invasive Treatment

Facet Disease Surgery: Top Reasons Why You Should Choose LSI for Minimally Invasive Treatment

Your facet disease may go by many terms such as facet arthritis, facet joint syndrome, degenerative facet joints, and facet hypertrophy. All of these terms basically mean that one or more of your facet joints is being affected by arthritis or another form of degeneration. Since your facet joints are what give your back the ability to move, bend, and stretch, facet disease can greatly impede your range of motion. This disease also can cause pain that radiates from the affected facet joint to other areas of your body such as your hips, legs, shoulders, and arms.

Laser Spine Institute is proud to offer an extremely effective and minimally invasive procedure for facet disease called facet thermal ablation. During this procedure, the surgeons at LSI use a laser to clean the facet joint and also to deaden the nerve causing your facet disease pain. This is similar to what a dentist does with localized nerves during a root canal. Facet thermal ablation takes about 40 minutes and resolves pain that is radiating from the diseased facet joint.

In addition to our innovative procedures like facet thermal ablation, there are many other reasons why you should consider LSI for your facet disease treatment:

  • We perform more minimally invasive spine procedures each month than any other facility of our kind in the world.
  • Our facet thermal ablation is an endoscopic procedure which means you will have a tiny incision with minimal disruption to surrounding tissues and muscle.
  • Our outpatient procedures allow for fast recovery times - patients are up and walking within 30-60 minutes of their surgery.
  • Our infection rate is 0.1%; 40 times lower than the national hospital average infection rate of 4%.
  • Our success rate is phenomenal, as more than 85% of our patients feel improvement in their symptoms within 3 months.
  • Our world class facilities include state-of-the-art imaging equipment, the most advanced medical technology, a physical therapy wing, a family cafe for those who accompany you, and much more.
  • We have streamlined our surgeries into a 5-day process so that our patients are able to go home and get back to their lives as quickly as possible.

At Laser Spine Institute, our patients receive nothing but the best. To learn more about why LSI is the top choice for minimally invasive facet disease surgery and many other procedures treating chronic back pain, contact us today. We will be happy to answer your questions and give you a free MRI or CT scan review.

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