Radio frequency ablation of disc herniation is a technique to treat disc herniation by accurately outputting ultra-high frequency radio waves through a specific puncture guide needle, which causes local tissue to generate local high temperature and plays the role of thermal coagulation or ablation and atrophy of disc nucleus pulposus. Therefore, it is also called "radiofrequency thermocoagulation of intervertebral disc" or "radiofrequency ablation of intervertebral disc".
trait
The treatment process is accurate positioning under the guidance of C-arm, which is always detected under digital subtraction and directly acts on the diseased intervertebral disc. The data is accurate to below 1mm, and the whole operation can be seen, which will not hurt the surrounding normal tissues and nerves. The temperature of radio frequency can be controlled, which ensures the safety before and after treatment, without infection and thermal damage. Minimally invasive, painless, the puncture needle is only 0.7 mm (as thin as the infusion needle), no operation, no bleeding, no influence on the stability of the spine after operation, little risk and quick recovery. Quick effect and high curative effect. RF's unique safety testing system can detect nerves within the treatment range of 1cm. Unique impedance display function can distinguish nucleus pulposus ring, calcification, bone and blood vessel. It can accurately calculate the volume to be resected without damaging normal tissues, directly locate the protruding part through the target, accurately ablate the protruding part, relieve nerve root compression or * * *, quickly relieve pain symptoms, reshape the fibrous ring, and treat lumbar disc herniation and cervical spondylotic myelopathy in one step. Green therapy has a wide range of age adaptation, and the whole treatment process does not use chemicals, so the treatment is greener and more humanized. It is safer for elderly patients.
Principles and advantages
Radio frequency instruments used for pain treatment are specially equipped with nerve functions, which can find and accurately locate sensory nerves and motor nerves, block or change nerve conduction with radio frequency current, and achieve the purpose of relieving pain. This physical nerve thermocoagulation technique can well control the temperature and range of thermocoagulation lesions, and can reduce or eliminate pain after treatment while maintaining proprioception, touch and motor functions. Compared with other existing nerve destruction technologies, the main advantage of radio frequency technology is that it can obtain quantitative and predictable nerve thermocoagulation lesions.
Radio frequency ablation of intervertebral disc, also known as minimally invasive radio frequency ablation of intervertebral disc (PIRFT) and radio frequency target thermocoagulation of intervertebral disc, refers to that radio frequency needle is inserted into the protruding intervertebral disc, and the protein of the protruding disc is solidified by heating, so that the internal pressure of the protruding disc is reduced and retracted, and at the same time, the fibrous ring is repaired, so as to reduce the compression on nerves and achieve the effect of not affecting the nucleus pulposus in the intervertebral disc. Radiofrequency ablation of intervertebral discs is mainly used for discogenic low back pain.
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Radio frequency ablation of intervertebral discs is mainly used for discogenic low back pain, bulging and inclusive disc herniation, but it is ineffective for large protrusion, nucleus pulposus prolapse and dissociation.