Background The standard treatment for cervical disc herniation is open discectomy surgery but some of techniques, such as nucleoplasty were applied by neurosurgeons in recent decade. The aim of this study was to compare the postoperation results of open discectomy and nucleoplasty methods in people suffering from single cervical disc herniation. Materials and Methods In a clinical trial study...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the efficacy of percutaneous nucleoplasty using coblation technique for the treatment of chronic nonspecific low back pain (LBP), after 5 years of follow-up. METHODS From September 2004 to November 2006, 172 patients underwent percutaneous nucleoplasty for chronic LBP in our department. Forty-one of these patients were followed up for a mean period of 67 months...

OBJECTIVES To make a retrospective analysis and evaluate a clinical response to the control of disc degeneration related pain of 396 patients submitted to percutaneous lumbar nucleoplasty; and to make a record of visual analogical scale (VAS) up to a three-year follow-up after the surgical procedure. METHODS Analysis of VAS score in 396 patients with lumbar disc degeneration related pain, acc...

OBJECTIVE This retrospective study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of combined microscopic fragmentectomy and intraoperative nucleoplasty for sequestrated lumbar disc herniation. METHODS Twenty-four patients with magnetic resonance imaging proven sequestrated lumbar disc herniation with small annular leak treated by microscopic fragmentectomy and nucleoplasty were included. Patients w...

The management of disc protrusion is multidisciplinary. In the midway between conservative treatment and open surgery are minimal invasive procedures. Nucleoplasty is a new treatment of discogenic leg pain using bipolar radiofrequency device for vaporising a small volume of nucleus pulposus. Percutaneous removal of nuclear tissue is thought to lower nuclear pressure, thereby reducing nerve root...

N is a method of surgery that has been referenced frequently, and is known to create minimal damage. However, there are limited publications that investigate physiotherapy techniques and procedures following the surgery. Our objective is to study the changes in the parameters of pain, disability, physical performance, kinesiophobia, fatigue, and physical activity of patients operated upon by lu...

BACKGROUND Over the last several decades there has been a general trend toward reduction and minimalization in surgical treatment of chronic back pain, since open surgery brings complications in small and contained disc herniations instead of achieving expected success. Attention has been focussed on percutaneous nucleoplasty due to the limited success of other minimally invasive methods, as we...