Microtherapy
Microtherapy is a minimally invasive treatment that can be done as an out-patient. Very fine instruments, injection needles and local anaesthesia are used, so that the intervention is almost free of pain.
For the thorough planning and controlling, microtherapy is done under CT- and X-ray-guidance, which makes an extremely accurate work possible that avoids the injury of anatomical structures and organs. Dependinig on interventions, instruments can also be controlled by virtue of an endoscope with glas fiber cables and fiber optics.
Determined by examination results (quite often in cervical spine), the position of instruments and needles has to be supervised by means of a small amount of a contrast agent. Treatments in lumbar spine are done in abdominal position, those in cervical spine in supine position.
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A Selective infiltration of the ileosacral
joint
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B Microtherapy of a facet joint under gui-
dance of the needle position at the joint
line, second needle in the nerve root canal
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The following treatments are differentiated:
Treatment of the so-called facet joints
- facet blockade
- facet infiltration
- facet laser coagulation
Treatment of the nerve root
- periradicular infiltration
- epidural infiltration
- percutaneous laser nucleotomy
Treatment of the spinal canal
- epidural injection
- periradicular injection