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Traditionally spine fractures are being fixed by open surgery which involves exposure of the spine bones via completely detaching the muscles from the bones. Thereafter pedicle screws are placed into bones and rods applied and muscles approximated with each other and skin closed. After this open surgery and dissection of the muscles they become dysfunctional permanently. This causes loss of natural muscle strength into the lower back resulting in chronic low back pain and failed back syndromes. In the modern era, we fix the spine fractures without any muscle dissection. We insert the pedicle screws percutaneously via small stab incisions via tubes through the muscles without damaging any of the muscle fibres. This causes lesser blood loss , lesser post operative surgical site pain, lesser hospital stay leading to better early and long term outcome in terms of preservation of natural muscle strength and full functional capabilities. Thus, after MIS fracture fixation patients can be made to sit, stand and walk on the same day and can be discharged on the next day. For more details you can watch our video on our YouTube channel "MIS spine clinic".

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