When a 40-year-old male professional athlete hurt his back, the surgery which was thought to repair the injury instead gave him further damage. The patient first suffered lumbar disc herniation while competing. In order to repair the condition he underwent surgery to associate nerve compression and insert supporting hardware in the spine.
However, after surgery, the patient was suffering from the leg stiffness. This is that you can not raise your feet up on your shoulders. His follow-up physician told him that he could not lift his leg again, suspecting that the nerve roots were stretched to the distance during surgery.
The first sports injury was a disc herniation located between the fourth and fifth vertebrae of the lumbar or lumbar spine. Lumbar stenosis or narrowing of the spinal canal also proved to exist. To relieve the pressure on the spinal cord caused by this stenosis, compression laminectomy was performed. Laminectomy removes parts of the vertebrae and expands the interior of soft tissue.
In addition to decompression surgery, the surgeon inserted the BAK cage and used a pedicure screw to fuse a part of the patient's spinal column. During surgery, the doctor noticed that the nerve roots were not damaged and not damaged. In addition, postoperative tests showed that nerve roots were not cleaved in any way.
Discovery of undamaged nerve roots suggests that injury to the patient's foot was caused by a surgeon's doing something, or by a mistake other than by the surgeon erroneously cutting the nerve. This finding suggests only what the doctor concluded by the patient said. That is, the nerve roots extended too much causing injuries.
However, the loss of feet due to excessive nerve root elongation is a complication of compressive laminectomy, and even the best surgeon is inevitable.
This patient may have medical malpractice cases when putting an inappropriately sized implant (leading to excessive nerve enlargement), or if the surgeon has incorrectly placed the hardware incorrectly. Only medical professionals can judge this by seeing MRI, X-ray, record.
