New MicroNav surgical technique provides greater safety and reduces pain

The revolutionary new MicroNav surgical technique, performed by Dr. Scott Hodges, gives greater safety, less pain, minimal cuts and faster recovery from spine surgery using high-tech 3D scanners and GPS-like instruments. These bold claims are backed by more than 600 surgeries with zero infections and zero revisions, a huge improvement over the high failure rate of "open" surgical techniques and questionable "laser" spine surgery.

MicroNav surgery uses computers, high-tech scanners and geo-sensing instruments to allow Dr. Hodges to "see inside" a patient's body as the surgery is performed. This gives the doctor a level of precision never before available. "Most doctors are trained to operate by feel and by what they see. Unfortunately, there's no way to be sure of your success using traditional surgery, so many doctors make unnecessarily large incisions just to get a better view," said Dr. Hodges. "MicroNav surgery uses real-time scanning and 3D imaging of the body, plus special GPS-like instruments that show me what is going on inside the patient as I use a surgical microscope to work through the tiniest incision possible." The combination of tiny incisions, less cutting of muscle, and precise placement of implants and constructs means patients return to normal activities faster, with less pain, and fewer scars.

"Patients are bombarded with promises of minimally invasive surgery, lasers and other miracle cures, most of which are misleading, if not outright dangerous. MicroNav surgery is not a miracle cure, it's the latest and greatest technology used to perform the absolute safest and best procedure for patients requiring spinal surgery without unnecessary cutting. Because I use a microscope and special image-guided computers and instruments, I can work in a much smaller space, with scars generally less than an inch," commented Dr. Hodges. "The precision of MicroNav surgery means much faster recovery, and extreme reduction of risk of revision surgery. Older surgical methods have a high incidence of pseudoarthrosis, which is a non-union or failure to fuse. And that means more surgery. Why take a risk with older methods when we have this technology available?"