{"id":24443,"date":"2018-03-13T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciatica.com\/?post_type=case-study&p=24443"},"modified":"2023-04-28T18:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T18:46:03","slug":"teaching-video-foraminal-osteophytosis-indication-for-trans-foraminal-decompression","status":"publish","type":"case-study","link":"https:\/\/www.sciatica.com\/case-studies\/teaching-video-foraminal-osteophytosis-indication-for-trans-foraminal-decompression\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Video: Foraminal Osteophytosis \u2013 Indication for Trans-foraminal Decompression"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Symptomatic foraminal osteophytes are difficult to diagnose due to its insidious onset and lack of acute symptoms. A diagnosis of symptomatic osteophytosis is difficult for traditional spine surgeons to treat. However, endoscopic decompression can easily decompress the osteophyte as shown in the procedure demonstrated here.<\/p>\n

This 71 year old female from Chicago was referred by her spine surgeon after several spine surgeons in Chicago did not have any specific recommendations for her chronic sciatica from a foraminal osteophyte at a degenerative disc level.<\/p>\n

She had an obvious osteophyte that can be asymptomatic in many patients and usually considered a condition of normal aging. She only had pain, and no obvious evidence of radiculopathy except for a mildly depressed knee reflex and chronic intermittent pain that progressed each year.<\/p>\n

Finally, her friend and orthopedic spine surgeon who trained with me, asked her to contact me to see if anything could be done. I determined that she had a foraminal space occupying lesion that was causing her pain and provided a transforaminal epidural therapeutic injection that gave her complete relief for a short period of time.<\/p>\n

She came from out of town and did not want to wait to see if the steroid took effect later. Following her surgery, she was immediately \u201cpain free\u201d.<\/p>\n

This illustrates an unknown indication by traditional spine surgeons who, after physical therapy and\/or pain management, had no other recommendations.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n

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