Find Relief From Sciatic Nerve Pain
It’s time to take control of your sciatica pain. The experts at Mayo Clinic in Florida will listen to your needs, help you find the cause of your sciatic nerve pain, and develop a treatment plan that works for you.
There are many underlying issues that may be causing your sciatica. The multidisciplinary team at the Mayo Clinic Spine Center has the experience to give you an accurate diagnosis and treatment that can ease your discomfort and restore your quality of life.
Many insurance plans accepted.
Mayo Clinic has agreements with many insurance carriers, third-party administrators, and employers.
When it's time to find answers, you know where to go.
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Advancements at Mayo Clinic
The goal of minimally invasive surgery is to minimize the damage to soft tissue around the spine, including less pain, shorter stays in the hospital, faster return to work; all of the things that we want for our patients. We're working very hard to improve every aspect of care for our spine surgery patients. We're using virtual reality technology to help us educate patients ahead of surgery. We're using it to plan for surgery. We're also using it in the operating room to help us visualize structures and increase the safety of surgery. We're also working on enhancing recovery after surgery for our spine surgery patients.
Most surgeries fall into one of three categories. The first category is decompression surgery. With decompression surgery, we're making small incisions, maybe using an endoscope or a slightly smaller tubular retractor to go down and remove tissue that's pressing on the spinal cord or nerve roots.
Another type of surgery that we do is called disc replacement surgery or arthroplasty surgery. We remove a desk and we replace it with a device that maintains natural movement within that joint.
A third type of surgery that we do is called spinal fusion surgery. With spinal fusion surgery we're trying to fix two or more bones together. We need to place, most of the time, some sort of instrumentation into the body. That includes rods, screws, plates, sometimes cages into the disk space to hold those bones together so that over time a bridge of bone grows between those levels, fusing them together.
We look at each patient and we look for the least invasive way to address their problem. What we don't want to make is minimally invasive surgery, minimally effective. As a spine surgeon working at Mayo Clinic, it is incredibly gratifying and rewarding and exciting to offer patients the latest technologies and minimally invasive surgery techniques. Our goal for every patient is to help the patients recover quickly and get back to life.
Patient Testimonials
I feel so much better. I can't begin to explain what it means to be able to move around again... Everyone that worked with me at Mayo Clinic was fantastic.
Dan
Any use of this site constitutes your agreement to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy below.
A single copy of these materials may be reprinted for noncommercial personal use only. “Mayo,” “Mayo Clinic,” “MayoClinic.org,” “Mayo Clinic Healthy Living,” and the triple-shield Mayo Clinic logo are trademarks of Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
© 1998-2025 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER). All rights reserved.