When we talk about neck pain, something relatively common are herniated discs. Herniated discs are when there is an injury to the intervertebral disc, which serves to protect us from the loads that pass through the spine. The bump or herniation is made and it will crush a nerve root. This nerve root is in charge of communicating with the outside world throughout the body. What the hernia is going to do is to crush a nerve root and that nerve root is going to respond with pain, decreased effort, decreased sensitivity. While the great majority can be treated conservatively, with therapy, with analgesics, with infiltrations, some need surgery. The surgery basically consists of removing that disguise, and to replace it by something in this case there are times that we put a box that is going to replace that space and something is put to protect that box or in other cases a disc prosthesis can be put, although it is less common in some patients can require that type of things the objective is to remove the damaged disc and to replace it by something that can maintain the space and the roots can be free. If you have any questions do not hesitate to send us a message or call us to answer you.
