Outpatient

The term "outpatient" means a patient who does not stay in the hospital for 24 hours or longer, but visits a hospital or other medical facility for diagnosis and/or treatment of their health issues. This term is often used in relation to surgery, and means that a procedure does not require the patient to stay overnight in the hospital.

Outpatient Spine Surgery

While traditional spine surgeries were massively invasive, requiring hospitalization, large incisions, and lengthy recovery times, endoscopic techniques can be used to perform a spinal procedure on an outpatient basis. This means that a patient can come in for an endoscopic procedure and leave the medical facility on the same day. In addition, there are a number of other benefits of a minimally invasive procedure versus an open spine surgery, such as:

• Smaller incision
• Less risk of infection
• No cutting of muscle
• No insertion of hardware or bone grafts
• Significantly shorter recovery time

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If you are suffering from the pain and other symptoms related to a degenerative spine condition, and conservative, nonsurgical treatments have failed to ease your pain, you may now be considering surgery and weighing the choice between an open back surgery and an outpatient endoscopic procedure. If so, contact Laser Spine Institute today to learn more about our minimally invasive procedures that are alternatives to open spine surgery. Our safe, effective procedures have helped tens of thousands of patients find relief from back and neck pain.