Combat Back Pain With New Surgeries

According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, nearly 80 percent of Americans will suffer from back pain at some point in their lives. While some back pain can be alleviated through natural remedies such as yoga, rest, and acupuncture, or nonsurgical therapies such as medication, braces, lumbar traction or steroid injections, some back pain will require surgery. Up until recently the only choice for severe back pain was spinal fusion surgery, an invasive surgery with a recovery time. Now there are more options.

Trans 1 (or AxiaLIF) is a lumbar spine surgery performed with a simple half-inch incision near the tailbone that was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2004. AxiaLIF is a non-invasive surgery option. Charite, also approved in 2004 by the FDA, is an artificial disc replacement surgery for degenerative disc disease. Both procedures are known to alleviate pain with a shorter recovery time than spinal fusion.








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