| Scar tissue forming near the nerve root is called | | | | A nerve cell that lives in the brain or within the spinal |
| epidural fibrosis. This epidural fibrosis is a common | | | | cord is called a central nerve, and a nerve that leaves |
| occurrence after back surgery has been preformed. | | | | the spine to go into the arms or legs are called |
| The formation of scar tissue is part of a normal | | | | peripheral nerves. These peripheral nerves are actually |
| healing process the body goes through after spine | | | | bundles of millions of nerve fibers that leave the |
| surgery. Unfortunately the build-up of this scar tissue | | | | spinal cord and branch to their target muscles to |
| can cause nerve impingements causing back pain and | | | | make them move or go to the skin to provide |
| or leg pain. There are successful procedures | | | | feeling. |
| performed by surgeons called a Laminotomy. | | | | If a nerve gets "pinched" the flow up and down the |
| A nerve that is under pressure and causing pain or | | | | inside of the hose is reduced or blocked and the |
| impaired function is referred to as a pinched nerve. | | | | nutrients stop flowing. Eventually the membrane |
| This can happen to nerves that control muscle | | | | starts to lose its healthy ability to transmit the tiny |
| movements or relay sensations to the brain. | | | | electrical charges and the nerve fiber may eventually |
| The initial symptoms will affect your buttocks and | | | | die. When enough fibers stop working, the skin may |
| legs, arms, fingers, neck or shoulders. These | | | | feel numbness or a muscle may not contract. |
| symptoms may be tingling, numbness, a burning | | | | Minimally invasive laser spine surgery uses an |
| sensation or shooting pains. | | | | arthroscopic approach to a Laminotomy opening the |
| The pains and sensations can sometimes be felt quite | | | | spinal canal without any need for general anesthesia. |
| a distance away from the point of pressure. Although | | | | A laminotomy is generally performed in a surgical |
| you have a pinched nerve the lumbar region of your | | | | outpatient setting. A laminotomy is not a |
| back, it's possible that the only painful symptom that | | | | laminectomy. |
| this may be causing could be in your calf. Pain and | | | | Laminotomy: A laminotomy the surgical procedure |
| weakness may increase when there is nerve damage | | | | used to relieve the spinal canal off pressure affecting |
| from constant pressure. Movement skills, reflexes, | | | | the exiting nerve root and spinal cord. The process |
| sensations in the affect area may be affected and | | | | increases the amount of space available for neural |
| muscular atrophy may begin to occur. | | | | tissue thus releasing the nerve(s). |
| Nerves are extensions from the brain that reach out | | | | The term laminotomy is derived from the Latin |
| into the arms or legs to go to the muscles or skin. A | | | | words lamina (bony plate that covers the posterior |
| nerve is a cell that is microscopic in size, and its fibers | | | | arch of the vertebra) and -otomy (act of cutting, |
| may run several feet in length toward its destination. | | | | incision). |