Intervention - Spinal Disorders
Minimally Invasive Intervention for Spine Pain
Goals of the Procedure: The primary goals of the procedure are to reduce pain of discogenic origin. This is achieved though heating of the intervertebral disc and subsequent damaging of pain sensitive nerve endings. The heating of the disc also causes stiffening of the gel-like center of the disc, which may reduce the risk for progressive disc herniation. IDET is essentially performed as a minimally invasive treatment and alternative to surgical microdiscectomy and/or fusion of the involved level.
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