Back Surgery: Types, Benefits Risks and Pros and Cons

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Back Surgery Types, Benefits Risks and Pros
Cons
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INDEX

1. What is Back Surgery?
2. Types of Back Surgery
3. Benefits of Back Surgery
4. Risks of Back Surgery
5. Pros and Cons of Back Surgery

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What is Back Surgery?

• Back surgery can help relieve some causes of back
  pain and sometimes back pain resolves on its own
  within 2-3 months.
• Back pain is one of the common ailments seen by a
  doctor.
• Back problem typically responds to non-surgical
  treatments like anti-inflammatory medicines, heat
  and physical therapy.

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Types of Back Surgery

• Different types of back surgery are as follows
• Diskectomy
• Laminectomy
• Fusion
• Artificial disks

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Benefits of Back Surgery

• Some Benefits of back surgery includes
• You can move around better.
• You're more physically fit.
• Your mood improves.
• You don't need to take as much pain medicine.
• You can go back to work.
• You're more productive at work.

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Risks of Back Surgery

• Some Risk while getting into Back Surgery
  includes
• Reaction to anesthesia or other drugs
• Bleeding
• Infection
• Blood clots, for instance in your legs or lungs
• Heart attack
• Stroke
• Herniated disk
• Nerve damage

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Pros and Cons of Back Surgery

• Pros of Back Surgery
• You can move freely without any pain in your back
  and can roam easily.
• You will feel more energetic and will give better
  results in your workplace.

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• When you are gone through back surgery, you will
  feel physically fit because of exercise too.
• You do not have to take pain killers like before
  because of modern techniques.
• You can go back to work without any complaints of
  back pain.
• When everything and the pain gets off, you will
  feel very comfortable, and your mood gets
  changed, and you will feel the relaxation in your
  body.

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• Cons of Back Surgery
• You can get excessive bleeding because of surgery
  or if the operation is not performed well as it
  should be.
• You may get some reaction to drugs such as
  anesthesia that is injected to reduce the pain
  while surgery or to make your body numb to
  operate appropriately.

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• A patient going for a back surgery may also get a
  heart attack because of stress, high blood
  pressure or blood sugar.
• There are chances to get blood clotting in your
  legs or lungs when surgery is not performed well
  by a surgeon.
• A wrong method in the operation may give the
  herniated disk to the patient and can damage any
  organic part of the body.
• If the doctor is not well experienced and makes
  a mistake while surgery, you may get paralysis in
  your body.

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