Non-surgery
Spine Center > Non-surgery
IntraDiscal Electro Thermal Therapy (IDET)
(Nonsurgical Digital Spinal Treatment Center)
Indications
- Patients with lumbar disc herniation not ruptured disc
- Patient with degenerative disc which causes chronic back pain
Procedure
- Local anesthesia administered
- Check the herniated disc using the MRI scan.
- Check the disc which causes pain through discography.
- Insert a thin needle up to the disc through a hole in the skin about 10-14cm off from the middle of the lower back.
- Position a special needle in the disc to pass a current of electricity through the needle.
- Heat up and coagulate the area around the herniated disc.
Advantages
- Local anesthesia
- A patient can go home on the day of surgery.
- No scar
- No effect on future surgery