Revision After Failed Spine Surgery

If your first spine surgery didn’t bring relief, you don’t have to settle for living in pain or face another long, invasive operation.

At ESINY, we specialize in endoscopic revision surgery for patients who still struggle after traditional procedures. Using an incision less than 1 cm, our award-winning surgeons directly address scar tissue, hardware problems, or lingering nerve compression with the most advanced minimally invasive techniques available. Our endoscopic spine surgery is the safest, smallest, and most precise surgery in the world, giving you the best chance at getting your life back.

When Traditional Spine Surgeries Fall Short

Traditional spine surgeries, especially those involving rods, screws, or large fusions, fail more often than patients realize. Studies show that a significant percentage of people experience ongoing pain even after undergoing these extensive, invasive operations.

The reasons can be due to many different factors, including scar tissue that presses on nerves, hardware that breaks or shifts, or nerve compression that was never fully treated in the first place. Also known as Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (FBSS), lingering symptoms from traditional spine surgeries can sometimes even leave people worse off than before the surgery.

Symptoms of Failed Spine Surgery Can Include:

  • Ongoing back or leg pain
  • Numbness and tingling in the arms or legs
  • Weakness that limits walking or daily activity
  • Stiffness or reduced mobility
  • Pain that spreads to new areas after surgery
  • Trouble standing, sitting, or sleeping comfortably

Unlike traditional surgeries with big cuts and high risk factors, endoscopic spine surgery is much safer and a minimally invasive approach that can potentially help when traditional methods fall short.

Find Relief with Endoscopic Spine Surgery

Endoscopic spine treatment offers the most precise treatment for addressing failed spine surgeries.

Lowest Risk of Any Spine Surgery

Our endoscopic approach often keeps risk to a minimum, with an infection rate of just 0.001% and ten times less blood loss than traditional spine surgery. Most of our patients return to their work and daily life up to ten days faster, without the higher complication rates linked to traditional open procedures.

Lowest Risk of Any Spine Surgery

Minimally Invasive For a Smooth Recovery

Traditional spine surgeries often rely on very large incisions, cutting through muscle, and the placement of rods, screws, or cages. This can lead to scar tissue, leave hardware complications, or fail to fully relieve nerve compression, resulting in chronic pain. Endoscopic revision uses an incision less than 1 cm and a tiny high-definition camera, thereby potentially minimizing disturbance to healthy tissue and the need for additional hardware.

Minimally Invasive For a Smooth Recovery

95% Walk Out the Same Day—with Only a Band-Aid

Almost every patient goes home the same day with just a custom ESINY band-aid rather than endless bandages. There’s no overnight stay, no large incision, no drawn-out recovery, and most patients begin light activity right away.

95% Walk Out the Same Day—with Only a Band-Aid

Say Goodbye To General Anesthesia

Unlike traditional spine surgeries that rely on general anesthesia, our endoscopic treatment often uses only minimal sedation and local anesthesia. You stay relaxed and at ease throughout the procedure. While general anesthesia is sometimes still used, many patients don’t need it.

Say Goodbye To General Anesthesia

Precision Treatment For Your Symptoms

Our endoscopic treatment is designed to address:

  • Persistent lower back pain
  • Difficulty standing up straight or walking long distances
  • Pain that radiates into the hip, buttock, or leg
  • Burning or electric-like sensations down the leg
  • Tingling, numbness, or “pins and needles” in the leg or foot
  • Reduced mobility in the lower back
  • Weakness in the leg or foot
  • Loss of reflexes in the leg or ankle
  • Sharp, shooting pain when standing, walking, or bending
  • Discomfort that worsens with coughing, sneezing, or sitting for long periods

Meet ESINY

Meet Your Team Transforming the World of Spine Surgery

ESINY leads the way in endoscopic spine treatment. Our award-winning doctors focus on treating the exact source of your symptoms with exceptional precision, potentially longer-lasting results, fewer side effects, and recoveries often faster than traditional surgery or injections.

With decades of combined experience, our internationally recognized team has presented at more than 500 conferences — including the North American Spine Society and the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery — and published over 300 papers in peer-reviewed medical journals. They are also members and leading endoscopic experts invited frequently to teach the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons, giving you access to precision medicine supported by unmatched expertise.

What To Expect

When you visit us for a consultation, we carefully examine the symptoms that persist after your traditional spine surgery (such as ongoing lower back pain, radiating leg pain, numbness, tingling, or weakness). We also review the specifics of the surgery you had, whether it involved rods, screws, or fusion, and assess how scar tissue, hardware issues, or unresolved nerve compression could still be causing your chronic pain.

If found to be a candidate for endoscopic surgery, we use an incision less than 1 cm and a tiny high-definition camera to reach the exact point needing treatment. By working around muscle and preserving healthy tissue, we can often correct the problem without adding new hardware or causing the disruption that often leads to further complications.

Because this approach is so precise, our patients typically experience less pain, fewer risks, and a recovery that is much faster than traditional revision surgery. Some procedures require only local anesthesia, and 95 percent of patients return home the very same day.

The following day, your ESINY surgeon personally calls to check in, review your progress, and answer questions—so you know you’re supported from the moment you leave the operating room through your recovery.

What To Expect
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Are You a Candidate?

If you’re still dealing with pain after spine surgery, you’re not alone. Many patients come to us after a previous operation didn’t bring relief, or even made things worse. Chronic pain symptoms like persistent back or leg pain, numbness, tingling, or weakness can all point to a failed traditional surgery.

Other patients come to us for help after exhausting non-surgical treatments such as physical therapy, injections, or acupuncture, only to find their pain keeps coming back. Even if you’ve been told another surgery isn’t an option or would carry too much risk, you may still be a candidate for endoscopic revision.

You deserve long-term pain relief, and our team at ESINY is here to help.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Not all spinal surgeries provide lasting results. In some cases with traditional spine surgery, scar tissue forms around nerves, hardware from a spinal fusion shifts, or compression wasn’t fully relieved during the operation. These issues can lead to failed back surgery syndrome and ongoing discomfort. Our team at ESINY looks closely at the cause of your persistent pain to determine whether endoscopic revision can correct the underlying problem.

95% of patients go home the same day and return to light activity immediately. Recovery is typically faster than open revision surgery because there is minimal disruption to muscle or tissue, and the incision is much smaller. For those who have struggled with persistent pain after prior operations, this cutting-edge approach often provides a smoother path back to daily life compared to traditional options like spinal cord stimulation or repeat fusions.

Most patients experience only mild discomfort after surgery, far less than with open spine procedures. Heavy pain medications are rarely needed, and recovery tends to be smoother.

The incision is less than 1 cm, which is approximately the size of a pencil eraser. Once healed, it’s barely noticeable. Patients leave with just a custom ESINY band-aid, rather than many bandages.

Endoscopic spine surgery is advancing very quickly, but the truth is, very few surgeons have the training and expertise to perform it. Our team at ESINY leads the field in these procedures and has performed more of them than any other center in the country.

Unlike traditional revision procedures that involve more large incisions and more hardware, our endoscopic surgery uses a tiny incision (less than 1 cm) and a very small high-definition camera to reach the affected nerve and/or problem area with absolute precision. It also goes beyond temporary pain management options like epidural steroid injections by attempting to directly address the structural cause of your symptoms.

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