MINIMALLY INVASIVE FUSION

Utilizing an advanced imaging-guidance system, Minimally Invasive Fusion is a special Minimally Invasive SpineCARE procedure that is used as a last resort to stabilize the spine without opening the back muscles.

Our Approach to Minimally Invasive Fusion Repair:

Fusion procedures have a terrible reputation and in many cases rightfully so. In the early 1950s doctors had no way of identifying what was painful and what was not, and most importantly, where the pain was coming from. Fusions were done fairly indiscriminately and it was just routine to fuse the bottom two levels and hope the pain would go away. Thus fusion was deemed “bad” because it was done on a large patient population for which the procedures weren’t necessary in the first place. If the joint doesn’t hurt the patient, then stabilizing the spine it isn’t going to help them. Now, MRI scans help determine whether or not someone actually needs a fusion. And in addition, at Minimally Invasive SpineCARE we employ a rare and highly effective pain mapping process that identifies the exact source of the pain, allowing us to work only on the source itself and nothing else. Minimally Invasive SpineCARE performs minimally invasive fusion ONLY AS A LAST RESORT and with a spinescope and percutaneous techniques with image guidance system without violating the muscle tissues. So NO tearing and excess bleeding that leads to a long and painful recovery. The patient will get out of bed the SAME DAY and will go home as early as the same day or the next.