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The DISCSEEL® Procedure – Seals, heals and promotes regrowth in torn and leaking spinal discs.
The DISCSEEL® Procedure – Seals, heals and promotes regrowth in torn and leaking spinal discs.
The DISCSEEL Procedure is the only outpatient, minimally invasive procedure that regrows and heals spinal discs permanently to treat low back pain, sciatica, and neck pain, as well as radiculopathy (tingling and numbness).
The DISCSEEL Procedure utilizes an FDA-approved Fibrin biologic to seal, heal, and promote healthy, new disc tissue growth. Sealing the torn disc stops the leaking and the pain, no longer inflaming spinal nerves. Studies affirm that Fibrin seals discs, returning them to normal mechanical strength.
The DISCSEEL Procedure is the only minimally-invasive procedure the seals and heals torn spinal discs.
Chronic back and neck pain don’t have to dominate your life. The DISCSEEL Procedure successfully treats these conditions.
This brief video illustrates how the the DISCSEEL procedure seals and heals torn spinal discs to relieve pain and inflammation.
During your in-person consultation, you’ll speak directly with your DISCSEEL Procedure Physician, discussing your prior tests and procedures, prior injections, or surgeries. You’ll be examined and you’ll have as much time as you’d like to ask your Physician questions. This is a good opportunity to receive detailed answers to all your questions that other Physicians haven’t explained to your satisfaction. When your symptoms begin interfering with your activities or sleep, then it’s time to seek help.
We test every disc in the region to identify even the most subtle disc tears. This allows us to be proactive, addressing small tears before they lead to large herniations or degeneration. The Annulargram is so important that its a necessary part of the DISCSEEL Procedure.
During your Annulargram, X-ray contrast is mixed with a little antibiotic, and is injected into the outer annulus fibrosus of your disc to identify subtle disc tears. Next, Fibrin is injected into each tear to immediately seal the disc. Over the following months, the Fibrin promotes disc tissue growth, sealing and healing previously torn discs.
The DISCSEEL Procedure takes approximately 40 minutes and is performed in an outpatient facility. You will be offered mild sedation. During the procedure, your physician uses x-ray fluoroscopy and injects contrast mixed with antibiotic into each disc in the region to precisely identify disc tears. Next, using x-ray fluoroscopy, the two components that make Fibrin (prothrombin and fibrinogen) are simultaneously injected into the tears of your annulus fibrosus, making Fibrin in the disc, and sealing your torn and damaged discs.
Fibrin is an FDA-approved biologic with many other applications in the human body. It is used in the disc as an accepted, off-label use of an FDA-approved biologic (this is analogous to steroids in epidural injections). The Fibrin will seal the disc tears and promote tissue growth over the following months, thus sealing and healing the discs.
Following your DISCSEEL Procedure, you will rest in recovery for 30 minutes. Most people experience temporary increased and different symptoms before improvement. We’d like you to walk with assistance the following day and increase your activity as tolerated. Increase your activities in 10% increments until you reach 100% of your desired activity. Most patients experience relief at 3-6 months post-procedure because our discs heal slowly.
Comparison of Lumbar spine Annulargram and Lumbar Spine MRI .
As shown: leaky discs are only visible on the Annulargram
It was the high failure that lead to the creation of the DISCSEEL Procedure. So how do the two procedures compare to each other?
Here are some facts:
The DISCSEEL Procedure is the only minimally-invasive procedure the seals and heals torn spinal discs.
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