Why Aren All Surgeons Using Mini-Incision Surgery?
Why Aren’t All Surgeons Using Mini-Incision Surgery? Thursday May 19, 2005 Advertisements, media reports, and many doctors have helped to popularize different types of “minimally invasive” surgical procedures. These procedures, such as mini-hip replacements and arthroscopic rotator cuff repairs, are being performed more commonly. Traditionally, most surgical procedures involved large incisions. Doctors have been developing newer techniques that allow surgical procedures to be performed through smaller and smaller incisions. With the advent of new instruments and imaging techniques, we are able to perform many surgical procedures without actually looking at the involved area of the body. So why don’t all surgeons perform these new procedures? Is it that they are inadequately trained? Or are they unaware of these procedures? Nope. Ra
