In industrialized societies, the prevalence of radicular low back pain has exploded in recent years. Lumbar disc prolaps, protrusion, or extrusion account for less than 5% of all low back problems, but are the most common causes of nerve root pain and surgical interventions. The primary rationale for any form of surgery for disc prolaps is to relieve nerve root irritation or compression due to herniated disc material. The primary modality of surgical treatment continues to be either open or microdiscectomy, but several alternative techniques including It provokes ablation of the nucleus of the disk by a controlled thermal effect produced by radiofrequency. Nucleoplasty is minimally invasive treatment aimed at removing nuclear material and lowering intradiscal pressure and decompressing through coblation needle inserted percutaneously into the nucleus of intervertebral discs. This paper will show a 3 years experience with 110 cases with lumbar radicular pain secondary to a disc protrusion that underwent Nucleoplasty as their secondary therapy.Background and Objective
Nucleoplasty
