If only spinal pain were a little simpler. Unfortunately, there are a wide variety of medical conditions that can make life downright unpleasant. You may have spinal stenosis, a herniated or bulging disc, chronic neck pain or degenerative disc disease.
On the bright side, there is innovative surgical treatment that can help relieve many of those pains. It’s a technology that has become the foundation the Disc Replacement Center, the first of it’s kine in Utah.
Artificial disc replacement replaces a painful disc with an artificial one. Because the disc is able to move in a variety of ways — including flexion, extension, lateral bend and axial rotation — the patient is able to restore more movement and functionality to their neck and back then with a traditional spinal fusion surgery.
This surgical approach is more advanced than spinal fusion, which involves fusing two or more vertebrae together. Not surprisingly, the result is limited mobility. In general, disc replacement provides a greater degree of rotation within the neck.
This operation is conducted through the front of the neck or abdomen and takes one to two hours for most patients. This is a less invasive surgery, which means there will be reduced blood loss, less risk to the patient and not as much pain as other procedures. This also means a faster recovery for most patients.
If you want to proceed with artificial disc replacement surgery, it makes sense to choose an experienced surgeon such as Dr. Armen Khachatryan. Disc replacement is his specialty. Additionally, Dr. K has had experience being an investigator in FDA clinical trials for novel vertebral fracture treatments and the Mobi-C cervical artificial disc replacement. He was among the first surgeons in Utah to implant the first artificial discs. If you are looking for a superior surgeon for your artificial disc replacement, you can’t go wrong with Dr. K.