Slippage

In your spine you have vertebrae and disks that work together to keep your back curved correctly and function.   Today I saw a surgery where the patient had a slippage of one of the vertebrae.  One of the vertebral bodies is out of alignment causing instability in the spine.  In the surgery that I observed the surgeon took instruments and place two screws in three vertebrae.  L4, L5, and S1, L5 was the vertebrae that had "slipped" essentially.  Once the screws were placed a rod was put between L4 and S1.  A device was then used to pull L5 back into place.  The outcome was better than expected.  The vertebrae was back in place and there was a space where the disk used to be.  To add more stability,  a mesh bag was placed in the space between L5 and S1 filled with bone.  This would fuse the two vertebrae together.  Over all very interesting and exciting day.
 
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