Previous Stories Disk Surgery Recovering from a ruptured disk in your back can take months of surgery, pain and rehabilitation. If the rupture is severe, there's probably no way to avoid surgery. But a new technique could make the recovery process a whole lot easier. Santos Rodriguez is a building superintendent. He needs to get around. but a few years ago, surgery on a ruptured disk in his back had him in bed for six months. The disk was fixed, but the incision had to heal. Santos Rodriguez - "65 to 70 stitches. Like they're hitting you with a machete over here. It's a big wound, they have to cut a lot of nerves. From that you get the pain." Disks in the lower spine can be reached from the back. But Santos' problem was in the thoracic area where the ribs attach. Andrew Casden, M.D. - "You cannot come at it from the back because you'd have to literally go through the spinal cord or pull it out of the way, because you could literally paralyze somebody." Doctor Andrew Casden, a surgeon at Beth Israel Medical Center, says it takes a very large incision to reach through the chest to the spine. Or at least it used to. Because just recently, Santos had another ruptured disk. Santos Rodriguez - "My chest was just blowing up with pain." But Doctor Casden used a new technique. Through 4 small incisions, he inserted surgical instruments and a miniature video camera, and was able to fix Santos' problem. Dr. Andrew Casden - "Within a couple of days, they're up and out of the hospital, some of them acting as if virtually they never had any surgery done." Santos Rodriguez - "I was up the very next day. The lady came to clean the rooms, she told me 'sit down.' I couldn't believe it. The next day I was up." Santos won't have the kind of scar he had from his first operation... and he's glad to be and about even if it means fixing another broken boiler.." Home | Upcoming Stories | Previous Stories |Survey | About Healthy Living | E-Mail

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