Human beings have a price to pay for walking upright.
In most cases, simple treatments like rest, exercise and pain killers bring relief, but some sufferers are not so fortunate. If one or more vertebral discs rupture and press on nerve roots, the pain that radiates from the back down through the legs can be incapacitating. This procedure requires general anesthesia and the dissection of muscle and the removal of bone. Recovery can be slow and painful. Now, there is a new, less traumatic, outpatient procedure for some disc patients called Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy .