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Collaboration bears fruit

Tomorrow, Bumrungrad Hospital is due to sign a memorandum of understanding with St Anna Hospital and Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation from Germany to establish the Bumrungrad Spine Institute as the first "full endospine" training centre in Asia.

The move comes after many years of collaboration between spine surgeons at the institute and Dr Sebastian Ruetten, director of spine surgery and pain therapy at St Anna Hospital in Herne, Germany, who pioneered special endoscopic techniques in lumbar disc surgery. Endoscopic technology involves the use of a lens at the end of an endoscope that can transmit images clearly to a surgeon allowing much more precise operations that can access compressed sciatic nerves almost without cutting the muscles.
This collaboration has resulted in lectures and workshops on full endospine techniques to treat back and neck pain. The workshops have attracted spine surgeons from this country, the US, EU, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Iran and India. The institute's team of specialists has also been requested to facilitate workshops in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Bangladesh and Malaysia.
Spinal disorders which the institute has treated with endoscopic surgery include herniated discs at the lumber level (which cause back pain in males and females of all ages), lumbar spinal stenosis (which causes leg pain while walking and often occurs in the elderly) and herniated discs at the cervical level.

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