After recovering from his first spine surgery, Bennet Wang, 64, was told he needed another one.
“Less than a year later, I was told they had to clean up the laminectomy and now I have a bulging disc,” said Wang.The Chicago man decided to get a second opinion with Dr. Kern Singh, director of spine surgery at Midwest Orthopaedics at RUSH. Singh is performing endoscopic spine surgery in an outpatient procedure.
Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly“The camera allows us to see, allows me to see, in 4k high definition. So not only is it, you know, smaller incisions and there's no muscle cutting, but the resolution to see the nerve roots and all the other disk spaces is amplified,” Singh said.
Common conditions including sciatica, bulging disks, spinal stenonis, even failed back surgery — Dr. Singh says all of those patients are candidates who may be eligible for endoscopic spine surgery.
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