{"id":50472,"date":"2025-04-25T21:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/mayo-health-library\/diskectomy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:41:49","slug":"diskectomy","status":"publish","type":"mayo","link":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/ja\/mayo-health-library\/diskectomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Diskectomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container mx-auto   wordpress-block wordpress- core-\">\n<p>Diskectomy is surgery to remove the damaged part of a disk in the spine. A diskectomy can relieve the pressure caused by a herniated disk. A herniated disk happens when the soft center of a disk pushes out through the tough outer lining. Herniated disks can irritate or press on nearby nerves.<\/p>\n<p>Diskectomy works best for treating pain that travels down the arms or legs from a compressed nerve. The procedure is less helpful for treating pain that&#8217;s felt only in the back or neck. Most people who have back pain or neck pain find relief with other treatments, such as weight loss, arthritis medicines or physical therapy.<\/p>\n<p>A healthcare professional might suggest diskectomy if other, nonsurgical treatments have not worked or if symptoms worsen. There are several ways to perform a diskectomy. Many surgeons prefer minimally invasive diskectomy, which uses small incisions and a microscope or tiny video camera for viewing the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>A diskectomy is done to relieve the pressure a herniated disk places on a spinal nerve. A herniated disk occurs when some of the softer material inside the disk pushes out through a crack in the outer lining of the disk. A herniated disk also is called a slipped, ruptured or bulging disk or disk prolapse.<\/p>\n<p>A healthcare professional might recommend diskectomy if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nerve weakness causes trouble standing or walking.<\/li>\n<li>Conservative treatment, such as physical therapy or steroid injections, fails to improve symptoms after 6 to 12 weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Pain travels into the butt, legs, arms or chest and becomes too much to manage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Diskectomy is considered safe. But as with any surgery, diskectomy carries a risk of complications. Potential complications include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bleeding.<\/li>\n<li>Infection.<\/li>\n<li>Leaking spinal fluid.<\/li>\n<li>Injury to blood vessels or nerves in and around the spine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll likely need to avoid eating and drinking for a certain amount of time before surgery. If you take blood-thinning medicines, you may need to adjust how much you take before surgery. Your healthcare team can give you specific instructions.<\/p>\n<h3>During diskectomy<\/h3>\n<p>Surgeons usually perform diskectomy using general anesthesia, so you&#8217;re not awake during the surgery. Ideally, just the piece of disk that&#8217;s compressing the nerve is removed. However, small amounts of spinal bone and ligament might need to be removed to get to the herniated disk.<\/p>\n<p>If the whole disk must be taken out, your surgeon may need to fill the space with a piece of bone. The replacement bone may come from a deceased donor or from your own pelvis, or the surgeon may use a synthetic bone substitute. The adjoining spinal bones, called vertebrae, are then fused together.<\/p>\n<h3>After diskectomy<\/h3>\n<p>After surgery, you&#8217;re moved to a recovery room where the healthcare team watches for complications from the surgery and anesthesia. You might be able to go home the day of surgery. But a short hospital stay might be needed, especially for people who have serious medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the amount of lifting, walking and sitting your job involves, you may be able to return to work in 2 to 6 weeks. If you have a job that includes heavy lifting or operating heavy machinery, you might have to wait 6 to 8 weeks before returning to work.<\/p>\n<p>Diskectomy reduces herniated disk symptoms in most people who have clear symptoms of a compressed nerve, such as pain that travels down the legs. However, relief from a diskectomy might not last a lifetime because it doesn&#8217;t cure the cause of the disk becoming injured or herniated in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>To help prevent re-injury of the spine, it may help to keep a healthy weight, eat a healthy diet, do low-impact exercises, and limit activities that involve repeated bending, twisting or lifting.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This surgical procedure removes the damaged portion of a herniated disk in the spine. 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