| The advanced medical treatments like spinal fusion | | | | Different types of spinal fusion surgery |
| surgery available in India have made India a popular | | | | |
| destination for medical tours. People, who cannot | | | | Anterior interbody spinal fusion is performed via an |
| afford the cost of spine surgeries in the west, or | | | | incision in a patient's abdomen. The vertebral bodies |
| patients from underdeveloped countries, where | | | | are approached from the front and a femoral ring |
| advanced medical facilities are not available, head for | | | | (cadaver bone), or cylindrical cage, is placed between |
| the super specialty hospitals to avail the cost | | | | the two vertebral bodies. The femoral ring or cage |
| effective and quality treatments offered. At the Joint | | | | instrumentation is filled with bone graft usually |
| Commission International accredited Hospitals in India, | | | | obtained from the patient's hip (iliac crest). If fusion is |
| the department of neuro and spine surgery offers | | | | successful, motion between the vertebrae will stop |
| the latest in craniotomy, Tran’s sphenoid | | | | and any pain caused by abnormal motion between |
| operations, treatments for brain and neck tumors | | | | those vertebrae will no longer exist. |
| and lesions, and more. Indian Hospital provides | | | | |
| comprehensive medical and surgical care for patients | | | | Posterior spinal fusion, sometimes referred to as a |
| with disorders of the brain, spinal cord and peripheral | | | | poster lateral spinal fusion, is performed from an |
| nervous system. Both invasive and non invasive | | | | incision made in the back. The procedure entails |
| procedures for treating back, neck pain and | | | | roughening the surfaces of the transverse processes |
| correcting spinal deformities are deployed. Latest | | | | and inserting bone graft between the transverse |
| techniques like minimally invasive spinal fusion surgery | | | | processes. The bone is usually obtained from a |
| in India, expandable devices for lumbar spine fusion | | | | patient's hip. If fusion is successful, motion between |
| are routinely carried out with results at par with the | | | | the vertebrae will stop and any pain caused by |
| best centers globally. | | | | abnormal motion between those vertebrae will no |
| | | | | longer exist. Because of the limited supply of a |
| A spinal fusion is simply the uniting of two bony | | | | patient's own bone and possible donor site pain or |
| segments, whether a fracture or a vertebral joint. | | | | morbidity, there is a continuing search for ideal bone |
| The reason for instrumentation with rods and screws | | | | graft substitute |
| is to act as and 'internal cast' to stabilize the vertebra | | | | |
| until the fusion, or bony re-growth, can occur. It is a | | | | India is a country where several traditional systems |
| "welding" process by which two or more of the small | | | | of health care have been in use for centuries. Even |
| bones (vertebrae) that make up the spinal column | | | | today these systems form a living and continuing |
| are fused together with bone grafts and internal | | | | tradition. Indian hospitals offer world-class treatment |
| devices such as metal rods to heal into a single solid | | | | at very reasonable prices. It offers medical tourism |
| bone. The surgery eliminates motion between | | | | packages. You can travel around and also avail of the |
| vertebrae segments, which may be desirable when | | | | medical services. Its profile now offers the option of |
| motion is the cause of significant pain. It also stops | | | | combining your holiday with a medical package. Travel |
| the progress of a spinal deformity such as scoliosis. It | | | | for the festive season, and combine your visit to |
| takes away some of the patient's spinal flexibility. | | | | family and friends and a tour of scenic attractions, |
| Most spinal fusions involve relatively small spinal | | | | with a medical checkup. You can easily combine your |
| segments and thus do not limit motion very much. | | | | tour with short-term medical procedures, such as a |
| | | | | neuro surgery or spinal fusion surgery in India. |