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Invasive cervical spine surgery
Hello, this is Shiraishi.
My minimally invasive cervical spine surgery means to value muscles.
The spine is a container to hold important tissue called nerves as well as a so-called motor organ with motor function. Power sauce of this motor is muscles.
Especially back muscles directly attached to the spine are very important to retain posture and move the neck.
Traditional surgery used to separate all the muscles from the bone.
I have devised ways to save these muscles not to damage neck mobility and support, or function to maintain posture. This is my minimally invasive cervical and lumbar spine surgery.
My idea of minimally invasive surgery is not very difficult.
Doctors and surgeons fundamentally face patients and people in awe of humans. Maintaining this principle, I think it leads to minimally invasive surgery.
For example, a surgical skilled surgeon can comfortably perform operation leaving a small scar.
However, he used to operate leaving a comparatively large scar before. When his skill is improved, he can perform operation leaving a small scar.
Surgeons capable of performing surgery leaving a small scar would never deliberately cut a large part of the skin because it is a demerit for the patients. The continuation of such consideration leads to minimally invasive surgery.
That said, if we can perform the same surgery without cutting, we stay away from cutting as much as possible. If it is possible to perform the same surgery without causing damage, we improve our skills and devise ways.
These accumulations lead to minimally invasive surgery. In my case, the central focus is muscles.
When we don’t cut muscles, surgery becomes a little difficult, however, we try to make out various ways, let’s say using a microscope, changing an invasive method or creating a new method. Then the tissue, which used to require open surgery, becomes enabled to be saved by surgery without cutting.