Nucleoplasty, an advanced surgery method using the Arthrocare, is performed after local anesthesia starting with inserting the 0.8mm micro needle inside the spinal disk, which is causing the pain. A high-density ionizer made with high frequency at low temperature, quickly decompose, melt, and eliminate the nueleus pulposus molecule inside the disk that was pressuring the spinal chord. While the needle is extracted, it cures the nueleus pulposus by contracting and coagulating.

Neuroplasty is comparatively efficient to young patients. If you’re a patient with all 5 conditions described below, you’ll be able to obtain satisfactory results.

• Patients with non disk rupture
• Patients with low osteoarthritic changes during MRI run.
• Patients with severe symptoms with strain on the legs, rather than the backache
• Patients who didn’t get improve with physical theraphy & kinesitherapy
• Patients with no lumbar spinal canal and spinal instability

- Pros

Can be performed within a brief time with local anesthesia, hospitalization is not needed. In many cases, it doesn’t require other costs besides surgery fee. Since it uses a thin needle of 0.8mm, it leaves no surgical scar and has less pain. Because a conversation is available between patient and doctor during the operation, this can reduce the patient’s emotional burden and fear of going through an operation, and feel fast improvement on the symptoms after the operation. The surgery only needs local anesthesia, and the patient may leave the hospital on the day of the surgery. So it is very convenient to patients.

- Cons

The doctor cannot check the nerve root decompression directly, and could only check the patient’s symptoms improve indirectly. This operation method could only be performed on disc prolapse patients with none ruptured disks, patients with spinal stenosis and spinal instability are not suitable for this operation method.