Are multiple surgeries on the spine dangerous?
Technical advance and surgeon’s expertise has made the surgical procedure safe and there are examples of patients having been operated upon their spine eight and nine times, every time successfully albeit temporarily. All the same it must be remembered that following surgical intervention tissues are altered. Fibrosis set in and second operation becomes a little more difficult than the first one and subsequent operations definitely much more difficult but not impossible. What is required is expertise and experience. 8. Can disablement occur during spinal surgery? Generally there is no disablement. But it can come under two following condition. If the spinal cord or spinal nerves are intricately intermingled with the diseased process then during dissection damage can occur resulting in disablement. This is known as accepted disablement as there is no other choice in treatment Second is of course inadvertent misadventure. There is always some improvement over a period of time with physio
