Released on: September 2, 2008, 2:13 am

Press Release Author: Bangkok Hospital Medical Center

Industry: Healthcare

Press Release Summary: Bangkok Hospital recently integrated its specialist
neuro-surgery and orthopedics services to create the new Full Endoscopic Spine
Clinic, offering hope to patients who suffer with long-term back pain.



Press Release Body: Bangkok Hospital recently opened the doors of its new Full
Endoscopic Spine Clinic. The clinic integrates specialist services from a
neuro-surgeon and orthopedic surgeon to offer diagnosis and treatment to back pain
sufferers.

The clinic focuses on endoscopic disagnosis and treatment techniques, which involve
only minimal incisions being made in the body.
Surgical procedures are carried out with the aid of a miniature camera and precision
equipment, guided by the most highly trained surgeons and diagnosticians.

The clinic is recommended for patients who experience severe back pain due to
slipped discs, which have not responded to conservative treatments; recurrent leg
pain that limits activity, due to back injury; spinal cord compression causing
bladder/bowel control problems; and weakness or numbness in legs and feet.

The doctors running the new Full Endoscopic Clinic are Dr.Verapan Kuonsongtum, a
neurosurgery and endoscopic spine surgery specialist, and
Dr.Sompoch Paiboonsirijit, an orthopedic and endoscopic spine surgery expert.
These doctors have 17 years experience each in medicine, with over ten years of
experience each in their chosen fields.
The doctors are both fluent in English and Thai, with Dr Kuonsongtum also fluent in
German.

“We are very proud of the work we do here. And while back surgery has a 95 percent
success rate, there is always room for improvement. That’s why we look at back
problems using both neurological as well as orthopedic schools of thought and have
created the most minimally invasive surgery possible,” said Dr. Paiboonsirijit.

The clinic also offers non-surgical and natural alternatives for reducing back pain.
Heat and cold therapy is a popular and effective treatment, as are electrical
stimulation, hydrotherapy and pain management.
The endoscopic discectomy is not the only surgical procedure that the new clinic
will offer.
Where spinal fusion, selective nerve root blocks, or a laminectomy are more
appropriate to the problem, these surgeries are also offered.

Around one fifth of all visits to physicians in the US are due to back pain. It has
been estimated that nine out of ten adults will experience back pain at some stage
of their life, and over half of these will experience it every year to an extent
that time of work is required.

The success rate of the endoscopic discectomy surgery that the clinic performs to
aid in back pain is more than 85%.
The cost is 190,000 baht (around US$5,700 at current exchange rates).

For further information please see
http://www.bangkokhospital.com/App/NewsEventsDetail.aspx?newsid=391





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