Spine surgery is a great way to ease pain and get back to daily activities for many patients who are suffering from a spinal issue.

Generally speaking, the most common conditions related to spine surgery are:

• Disc herniation
• Spondylosis of the cervical and lumbar spine
• Cervical myelopathy
• Spondylolisthesis

When nonsurgical treatments like drugs and physical therapy have been attempted for a while but have failed to improve the uncomfortable symptoms brought on by a patient's back problem, spine surgery is often taken into consideration.

Some of the forms of spine surgery are:

• Discectomy
• Laminectomy/ laminotomy
• Spinal decompression and fusion
• Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion