Post-Operative Pains (Post-Nucleotomy Syndrome)

Each patient feels pain in different ways. Regardless of whether doctors employ minimally invasive, microsurgical or open procedures, pain can appear after the operation. The following principle applies in those cases: The less surrounding tissue the doctors damage, the faster is the healing process and the fewer problems arise. For this reason we attempt to employ minimally invasive treatments as far as possible, and, thus, only perform open operations if the conditions so demand.

Aside from the usual pains during the healing process, chronic pain can sometimes appear after open operations. The pain sometimes radiates to the arms or legs, even if the operation was anatomically successful. The following reasons are considered: Development of a pain memory or chronification of the pain, if patients wait for too long, inadequate post-operative supervision, psychosocial problems, concrescences and similar. Some patients develop these symptoms only months or years after the treatment.

Symptoms: The symptoms depend entirely on your individual situation and on your sensation. Patients complain about diffuse or localized back pains with or without spread to the legs or arms.

Therapy: The usual post-operative pains are treated with medication. To relieve chronic pain, our clinic uses minimally invasive procedures, among others: back bone cord stimulation (pain pace-makers) and denervation. In cases of nerve jamming due to scarring, we begin with the treatment with conservative therapies. Only if these therapies produce an insufficient result are other, minimally invasive methods employed. The Epidural Infiltration (EpIn) works both as pain therapy and causal treatment at the same time. To shrink the interfering tissue, we employ either percutaneous laser disc decompression (PLDD) or percutaneous nucleotomy. In cases of nerve constriction, microsurgery is resorted to.