If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
This is a great maxim for reaching your goals in life, but when it comes to surgical procedures, patients hope and expect to undergo a reparative procedure just once — and their surgeons hope for this, too.
Unfortunately, a significant number of spinal surgeries fail each year — between 8%-45% after spinal fusion alone. However, the reasons for failed back surgery are complicated and not always related to the surgeon’s skill.
For example, in the case of spinal fusion:
Dr. Benjamin Cohen has helped countless patients by performing revision spine surgery, enabling them to gain mobility and be free from pain again — even if the results of their original surgery prove unsuccessful. It’s disappointing, but there’s hope.
Revision spinal surgery is a solution for many, but that doesn’t mean Dr. Cohen recommends it for everyone. He approaches your situation with care, compassion, and understanding of your unique circumstances and preferences.
This isn’t the time to rush into anything. Dr. Cohen spends as much time as you need going over the procedure, the goals, and recovery. He also thoroughly explores your condition, previous surgery, and current symptoms.
Varied paths lead to revision spine surgery. It may be your best solution if you have:
You may even need revision spinal surgery to address an entirely new problem. The timing of your post-surgical symptoms, including fatigue and pain, helps Dr. Cohen determine the origin of your complication.
Dr. Cohen uses innovative surgical tools and techniques for revision spine surgery.
Whenever possible, he performs minimally invasive revision spine surgery for patients, which means that instead of a single large incision, he makes several very small ones. This allows him to easily manipulate specially designed surgical instruments and work with more precision while he’s performing your surgery.
This type of surgery is far less traumatic on your body, so recovery is faster, and you experience less bleeding, scarring, and pain.
Minimally invasive revision spine surgery has many applications, whether you need a new surgery, like fusion or decompression, a restabilization of the metal plates and screws placed during your original surgery, or treatment for an infection.
No one should live with complications and pain following spine surgery, no matter the reason.
To learn more, please call our Garden City Office at 526-246-5008 to schedule an appointment. We offer both telemedicine and in-person appointments for your convenience.
