If you had a serious back injury, you would appreciate having a spine surgeon with top-notch experience, wouldn’t you? Dr. Armen Khachatryan, M.D., an orthopedic spine surgeon with the Physician Group of Utah, Inc. in West Jordan, not only has an impressive record in providing pain relief, while also preserving function, he also performs cutting-edge disc implant surgery.
A pioneer in his field, he uses surgical techniques that cause much less trauma to tissues. That’s because he uses high-tech medical implants to help his patients regain a healthy, functional lifestyle.
Modern spinal surgical procedures are lauded for good reason. When patients have the choice of choosing techniques that require much smaller incisions, post-surgical pain is more easily managed as there’s simply less overall trauma following surgery.
Dr. Khachatryan is highly respected not only for his skill with a scalpel, but also for his conservative approach. As a surgeon he believes many patients can recover without surgery. Even so, advanced surgical techniques are sometimes necessary to restore a patient’s quality of life when other therapeutic measures aren’t quite up to the challenge.
When white-hot pain radiates into a leg or an arm, the quality of life plummets, as many sufferers know firsthand. Pinched nerves, a very painful condition, may arise when some anatomical structure in the body presses on a spinal nerve, or from a narrowing of the spinal canal from age, or even acute disc herniation. Age-related issues as well as injuries may require the expertise of a surgeon to resolve both chronic and acute pain.
The good news: Most surgical interventions require very small incisions compared to what patients could expect just a few years ago. Surgical techniques that use cameras to monitor procedures as well as microscopic surgery cause less damage to the body, which means a quicker recovery.
Dr. Khachatryan recently performed a very small one-inch incision to the C5-C6 vertebrae in a patient’s neck to repair a herniated disc that was pinching a nerve. He then implanted a newly approved medical device that involved making a very small incision in the front of the neck and inserting a moveable ball-and-socket metal disc to repair the spinal joint. Dr. Khachatryan has demonstrated in numerous instances that he has the expertise to put patients on the road to a faster recovery.