A Saudi Arab medical achievement in the treatment of "neck disc" A Saudi, Jordanian, Kuwaiti and Emirati medical team has achieved a new medical achievement in the field of introducing the latest technology in the world to treat the neck disc by simple intervention for the first time in Jordan and the Arab region. This achievement was announced during the scientific conference and the medical workshop for treating spinal pain and discus at the University of Science and Technology Hospital in Irbid, northern Jordan.
The medical team, in which the Interventional Pain Therapy Consultant, Head of the Department of Pain Therapy at King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah, Dr. Osama Ahmed Al-Ahdal, and Dr. Haitham Al-Aqili, a consultant in neurosurgery, Dr.
Dr. Osama Al-Ahdal explained in a press statement that the operation was performed by making two small openings with an area not exceeding one centimeter, and then implanting a "Hafiz distance" from the back side, indicating that these operations were previously performed by implanting a "Hafiz distance" from the front of the neck, including Larger surgeries by passing sensitive tissues may have major complications in the future, while the use of modern technology that began to be used during this conference reduces the risk to the lowest possible degree and spares patients the possibility of complications.
Al-Ahdal pointed out that the general trend in treating back and neck pain goes in the direction of treatment using the simple intervention technique and avoiding major surgeries to reduce the time of patients'' stay in hospitals, which will positively affect the value of the treatment bill to reduce it and make room for the treatment of the largest number of patients, beneficial to the patients. And after undergoing operations with this technology, they return to their normal lives in a record period, unlike what was previously the case.
