Advanced Spine and Spinal Cord Surgery
The spine is the name given to the bones, muscles, tendons, and other tissues that extend from the base of the skull to the tailbone and is one of the most important parts of our body. We cannot hold ourselves upright and stand up without it. It is our spine that determines the structure of our body and gives it support for the movement. The building blocks of the spine are the vertebrae that carry most of the weight that rides on our spine and protect the spinal cord.
The spinal cord, on the other hand, is a nerve column consisting of millions of nerves located inside the spine. Just as we cannot provide the movement and flexibility of our body without the spinal cord, our organs cannot work either. Our spinal cord, which is one of the main parts of our nervous system, is a very sensitive structure containing nerve bundles and cells that carry messages from our brain to the rest of our body. The messages in question have three vital important functions:
Managing our reflexes.
Transferring our senses to our brain.
Controlling our body movements.
Spine diseases can be due to many causes that have come from birth or acquired later. We can summarize them as follows under the basic headings:
Stenosis and hernias of the lumbar, back, and neck region
Spine calcification
Spinal alignment disorders and deformities
Tumors of the spine and spinal cord
Traumas and fractures of the spine
Spinal infections
Congenital spine and spinal cord anomalies
We can evaluate our surgical treatment practices for spine and spinal cord health in 5 different groups:
