Racz's Epidural Catheter
Pain Catheter Therapy acc. to Prof. Racz
The pain catheter treatment according to Prof. Racz is an excellent alternative to conventional (open) intervertebral-disk surgery. It is a technique that attacks the pain directly under local anaesthesia by introducing a special catheter into the vertebral canal through a natural bone opening in the rump-bone (coccyx). This allows treating the inflamed and constricted nerve with appropriate anti-inflammatory substances. At the same time, the catheter allows desiccation and consequential shrinkage of the surrounding disk tissue.
Indications:
Advantages:
The pain catheter treatment according to Prof. Racz is an excellent alternative to conventional (open) intervertebral-disk surgery. It is a technique that attacks the pain directly under local anaesthesia by introducing a special catheter into the vertebral canal through a natural bone opening in the rump-bone (coccyx). This allows treating the inflamed and constricted nerve with appropriate anti-inflammatory substances. At the same time, the catheter allows desiccation and consequential shrinkage of the surrounding disk tissue.
Indications:
- Acute and chronic disk prolapse, including cases with paralytic symptoms (based on a neurological examination)
- Osseous degenerative changes (such as a constricted spinal canal, or narrowings at the point of exit of the spinal nerves)
- Troubles or painful cicatrisation following operations on the cervical or lumber spine
Advantages:
- low-risk, minimally invasive therapy
- local (instead of general) anaesthesia
- no cicatrisation risk (as in open disk surgery)
- ambulant physiotherapeutic follow-up treatment, therefore no rehabilitation hospital stay required
- fast return to the workplace
- therapy can be repeated