Cervical Spine Foraminotomy with burring Goals malpractice movies. Shows the goals of a foraminotomy, which are to remove the tissues pressing on the spinal nerve, while maintaining spinal stability, motion and alignment. This should decrease the pain and weakness in the shoulder and arm. A cervical foraminotomy is used to decompress a spinal nerve as it passes through the intervertebral foramen by removing the medial part of the facet joint that forms the roof of the foramen, the removal of the medial part of the facet joint, the burring of the walls of the foramen and finally wound closure. The inter-vertebral foramina are the two tunnels between adjacent vertebra that allow the spinal nerves to leave the spinal canal and pass to the rest of the body. The width of this tunnel can be decreased by degenerative disc collapse, facet joint or vertebral body osteophytes. Visit http://www.medilaw.tv for more information. Cervical Spine Foraminotomy with burring Goals malpractice movies.
