1. Very few patients actually need spine surgery.
2. Rehabilitation is the first choice of treatment.
3. True indication for spine surgery is only weakness in lower limbs or bladder bowel involvement.
4. Surgery done for sciatic pain is relative indication.
5. Most of the times pain gets better with medications and rest.
6. Open large incision surgeries have very limited indications in Spine surgery.
7. With advancement of technology minimal invasive surgery is the treatment of choice.
8. Microscopic surgery is far different from endoscopic surgery.
9. Endoscopic surgery has many different types.
10. All types of surgeries have only one common aim- to decompress the spinal nerves.