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Is Surgery Required For Lumbar Disc Prolapse?

My wife she is 45 years old, 150 cm height, 65 kg weight, she is suffering by back pain fast 10 years. Lumbar Disc, L3,L4 and L5 prolapsed. Now she is suffering too heavy pain and sh is not able to walk free. Is it necessary for a operation or it is curable. She took all kind of treatments no use. Please advice me.
Tue, 25 Nov 2014
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Spine surgeries are usually elective and quality of life surgeries. If your surgeon feels that your problem is correctable surgically and you feel that it is enough of suffering to bear, than it is the time to get operated. Certainly all non operative measures should be tried before that. Is the problem curable can be decided only upon examining the patient and her investigations and imaging which I am sure must have been done by your doctor who recommended surgery. Not all cases need surgery though.
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Is Surgery Required For Lumbar Disc Prolapse?

Spine surgeries are usually elective and quality of life surgeries. If your surgeon feels that your problem is correctable surgically and you feel that it is enough of suffering to bear, than it is the time to get operated. Certainly all non operative measures should be tried before that. Is the problem curable can be decided only upon examining the patient and her investigations and imaging which I am sure must have been done by your doctor who recommended surgery. Not all cases need surgery though.