Artificial Disc Replacement Surgery in India - Best Spine Hospital India

What Is an Artificial Disc?

Prestige^® Cervical Disc

An artificial disc is a prosthetic device inserted between the vertebrae to replace a natural spinal disc. It is designed to preserve mobility throughout the treated vertebral segment.

When non-surgical therapies fail to provide relief from acute disc herniation, your doctor may recommend spine surgery. The goal of surgery is to remove all or part of a damaged disc (discectomy), relieve pressure on the nerves and/or spinal cord (decompression), and to restore spinal stability and alignment after the disc has been removed.

Traditionally, spinal fusion has been the gold standard for surgically treating disc herniation or degenerative disc disease. Using bone grafts and instrumentation, such as metal plates and screws, this procedure fuses, or creates a bond between, two adjacent vertebrae. This will ideally stabilize the spine segment and provide pain relief.

This procedure has been successful in many patients. However, spinal fusion results in loss of motion and flexibility in the treated vertebral segment.

As an alternative to spinal fusion, your doctor may recommend a surgical procedure called artificial disc replacement. This is a type of joint replacement procedure, or arthroplasty, that involves inserting an artificial disc into the intervertebral space after a natural cervical disc has been removed.

The device is designed to preserve mobility within the disc space and throughout the treated vertebral segment. It is designed to function like a joint, providing motion (flexion, extension, side bending, and rotation) and alignment (height and curvature) of a natural disc.

The Prestige Cervical Disc is an artificial disc used to replace a problematic disc in patients with single-level (meaning only one spinal disc is affected) cervical degenerative disc disease. Disc degeneration is a normal part of aging, but painful degeneration is caused by a fall, a twisting injury or repetitive wear-and-tear to the cervical spine. Symptoms of cervical degenerative disc disease include low-grade pain from a stiff or inflexible neck and numbness, tingling, or weakness in the neck, arms, or shoulders as a result of nerves in the cervical area becoming irritated or pinched. Cervical fusion surgery is the current gold standard treatment for cervical degenerative disc disease.

Benefits  – Artificial Disc Replacement Surgery

The Prestige^® Cervical Disc as an alternative to spinal fusion was evaluated in a clinical study that involved 541 patients – the largest clinical study of its kind ever conducted and completed for the cervical spine.

Some key findings of the clinical study include:

• The group of patients receiving the Prestige Cervical Disc had a median return to work that was 26.2% earlier than the median in the spinal fusion treatment group.
• Patients in the Prestige Cervical Disc group experienced no device failures (breakages).
• Fewer patients in the Prestige Cervical Disc group required revision surgical procedures than those in the spinal fusion treatment group. A revision surgery was defined as a procedure that adjusts or in any way modifies the original implant configuration.