I have been told I have arachnoiditis or scar tissue, can I be helped?
Yes, we can remove the scar tissue piece by piece to free the nerve. Only if the nerve is totally encased with scar tissue or if there is a high risk of a Dural leak can it not be treated. Also excessive bone and disc may be removed to give more flexibility to the nerves and thus reduce pain since the pain is generally from a combination of the scar tissue with residual bone impingement. Procedures such as epiduralysis, Racz procedures and epiduroscopy generally have not be proven to be any more beneficial than an epidural steroid injection but doctors perform them because they are trying to help you. The solution is to free up the nerve and provide more flexibility to the surrounding tissues by decompressing the remaining bone and that is what our procedures aim to do.
Yes, we can remove the scar tissue piece by piece to free the nerve. Also excessive bone and disc may be removed to give more flexibility to the nerves and thus reduce pain. Procedures such as epiduralysis, Racz procedures and Epiduroscopy generally have not be proven to be any more beneficial than an epidural steroid injection. The solution is to free up the nerve and provide more flexibility to the surrounding tissues by decompressing the remaining bone.
Yes, there are times that the scar tissue may be competing for space in the spinal canal with the nerve root, and by creating some extra space, the nerve root may have additional breathing room, which may reduce the leg pain. In a back that has been operated on, sometimes small bone fragments or disc fragments may be confused with enhanced scar tissue, and each situation has to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Scar removal in and of itself is not going to be helpful in most situations, since when the operation is over, the body will just heal itself again with additional scar tissue. There are procedures such as epidural lysis, RACZ procedures, and epiduroscopy, which have generally not been proven more beneficial than an epidural steroid, but doctors perform them because they are trying to help you. The solution is to free up the nerve and provide more flexibility to surrounding tissues, and to reduce the tethering of the scar tissue.
