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Spinal Surgery Videos

The video you are about to watch illustrates the entire nucleus being suctioned, however, actually only the protruded portion of the disc, which is near the nerve root and/or spinal cord is removed.

Complete Video

18MB QuickTime Movie
56k Modem: 45 minutes
DSL: 7 minutes
T1: 2 minutes

See the actual procedure being performed and hear an interview with a patient after the surgery.

Slide Show

4MB .AVI Movie
56k Modem: 10 minutes
DSL: 2 minutes
T1: 30 seconds

Similar to the Video except it is a brief description of the procedure and no interview, but quicker to download.


If you have any trouble downloading the CED movie file, please send an email here. Before sending an email, please make sure that you have a media player that supports the .avi media format. If you do not have a media player or are not sure if you do, you can obtain one for both the Mac and PC formats here from Microsoft. You may also need to download the QuickTime player for the Video file if you do not have QuickTime. If you need the QuickTime player, you can download the latest version here from Apple's website.