Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - There now is a low risk treatment option available to some patients that can relieve the debilitating pain of sciatica and other back and leg pain. The debilitating pain that spinal stenosis causes can be relieved with a minimally invasive procedure using  a small titanium device called the X STOP®.

Dr. Stewart Eidelson, an Orthopaedic Surgeon in Boca Raton explains, "It's inserted very easily through a small incision. It spreads the spine in a way the nerves are released. We slowly expand it - and now the window is twice the size it was - so the nerve has no compression and sciata will go away."

The X STOP® is inserted in a 45 minute procedure that is often done with just local anesthesia.