A medical team at Al-Kafeel Super Speciality Hospital successfully treated a young man suffering from slipped and narrowed vertebrae.
A specialist in neurosurgery, Dr. Amjad al-Defa'i "the patient that is a young man who complains of severe pain in the back and left leg area, and when performing an MRI examination, it turned out that there was a herniated disc between the third and fourth vertebrae, and a narrowing in the spinal canal between the fourth and fifth vertebrae".
"We performed the surgical intervention, opened the vertebrae, lifted the cartilage, widened the spinal canal, and completely removed the fibrosis on the nerves,"he added.
He stressed that "the patient is now healthy, and he can practice his normal life after the recovery period, "pointing out that"success was achieved thanks to the experience of the medical team and the available means in the hospital, as well as the presence of modern technologies and devices."