Category: General Questions

Recovery after a via disc injection is really minimal. Patients need to commit about a half day to having the procedure done just to get to the surgery center and go home. Other than that, there’s no real recovery to speak of in terms of sedation required. It can be either done purely on our local anesthetic or with a very light sedation. Patients don’t need to be put to sleep.

Via disc differs from a typical injection in that most injections are a combination of numbing medicine and steroid. Often just masking the pain. Via disc is actually disc material that goes into the disc and helps restore and ideally regenerate the disc to provide a long-term solution to those patients.

Via Disc is a very exciting new product that can be used in the treatment of back pain. Typically back pain that the surgeon suspects originates from the disc. It involves a intracellular disc injection, meaning a simple needle is injected into the disc in a controlled setting. And typically re-expand the disc and can help regenerate the disc and help with patient’s back pain without major surgery.

When you start getting into lumbar fusions without clear indications, that’s where you hear these bad stories about spine success rates. That’s why if you’re contemplating a fusion, you should typically get a second opinion and go to a surgeon who’s really gonna put some thought into what procedures needed if you really need the fusion and what other options you may have.

Herniated disc success rates for a microdiscectomy or minimally invasive discectomy typically run in the neighborhood of 75% to 95%.