Summary: Advanced Neurosurgery of Reno
offers minimally invasive spine surgery.
Reno, NV - Advanced Neurosurgery of
Reno is a provider of neurosurgical care in the Reno and Carson City, Nevada
area. Board Certified Neurological Surgeon Dr. Michael H. Song provides
patients with a full range of services, and keeps up on the newest advanced in
spinal care, including minimally invasive spine surgery and disc replacement.
Minimally
Invasive Spine Surgery, as its name implies, is a term that describes a number
of different surgical techniques that involve making smaller incisions in the
patient than have historically been made with certain types of procedures. As a
result, patients are left with less tissue damage than they might otherwise
have sustained with more traditional and invasive techniques. Practicing at
Advanced Neurosurgery of Reno, Dr. Michael H. Song is fully trained in the
correct use of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery techniques.
At AdvancedNeurosurgery Reno, each patient is considered unique, and the staff
considers each one a partner in health care. Treatment always begins with a
comprehensive physical exam that uses the most advanced imaging technology
there is. This enables them to get an accurate diagnosis, which leads in turn
to the best possible course of treatment.
“After MRIs of
both neck and lumbar regions, a series of physical therapy sessions and epidurals
were prescribed to see if symptoms would improve,” a patient recalled.
“Instead, the symptoms worsened. Dr. Song recommended a plated fusion C4-C7
first, then an L4-L5 ILIF.”
The patient
underwent the recommended surgeries, and said afterward that each of them went
better than he had hoped for. “End result of surgeries is complete elimination
of lumbar/leg pain and numbness, and the end of a perpetual shoulder/neck
muscle spasm that I had endured for 20-plus years...I have started cycling
again for the first time in fifteen years. I have nearly 1,000 miles on a
recumbent trike, and have ambitions to seriously increase this mileage in the
future.”
About: Dr.
Song and the staff at Advanced Neurosurgery of Reno are gratified by such
success stories. In addition to treating immediate issues such as the one
described, Dr. Song also promotes the doctrine of prevention in all of the
treatment plans, and says that this is a way to prevent any possible future
problems.
