Robotic spine surgery combines technology and surgeon technique to maximize the outcome. Dr. Nikhil Shelke, orthopedic spine surgeon at Marshfield Clinic, explains the benefits of robotic spine surgery, how it works and how it is used with minimally invasive techniques. | Marshfield Clinic Health System

Spine endoscopy is extreme minimally invasive, keyhole spine treatment used in the treatment of back pain, leg pain, numbness and weakness, bone spurs, bulging discs, stenosis, herniated disc, facet joint disease, sciatica, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis and more. The treatment is done through a tube in between back muscles to reduce muscle damage and weakness, otherwise caused by cutting of the muscle. This procedure allows a tube, the size of a pencil to be placed into the spine through a cut ap