Timeline for Is it possible to perform surgery on your own spine?
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| Dec 2, 2018 at 19:02 | vote | accept | Rose | ||
| Nov 29, 2018 at 16:29 | comment | added | SamYonnou | @MontyHarder If the OP upgrades their futuristic microchip for a Handwavium patented nanochip I don't see any problems with just injecting the chip into their bloodstream from their arm and having it find its own way to the correct implant location in the spine. Since it is a "nano"-chip it wouldn't need to actually make any incisions in the tissues around the spine that are wider than a single cell. | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 15:11 | comment | added | Cyn | Hey, I upvoted it the first time I saw it. I gave what I thought was a good answer (and I still think it's a good one, for my skillset) but Elemtilas knows a lot more about this subject. Unfortunately, the OP has not been clear about what the surgery is, where it is (which part of the back, where into the spine, etc), and how much future tech there is. This makes every answer potentially good or bad, depending on how much it matches the OP's underlying conditions. | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 12:12 | comment | added | Tim B | I've added spoiler tags around the graphic images, impressive answer though - have an upvote :D | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 12:11 | history | edited | Tim B | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2018 at 21:20 | comment | added | Monty Harder | @SamYonnou Yes, we have surgeries today that require the tiniest incisions into which instruments are inserted. You'd probably need a needle large enough to carry power and control to the nanotech, a saline line for irrigation, a thread line to feed the sutures, and a suction line that could handle those bone chips. The nanotech would have to cut those bone chips small enough to fit through the suction line. It's all in Handwavium NanoMed's product brochure. | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 17:54 | comment | added | elemtilas | @SamYonnou -- May be. Not really much point in asking the question, is there? | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 15:50 | comment | added | SamYonnou | Good answer, but I think the "futuristic" setting can explain all of these difficulties away. Given the direction that surgical technology is progressing (specifically miniaturization and laparoscopy) it is not difficult to imagine that a futuristic spinal surgery would only require an insertion of a needle somewhere around the surgery site and then the rest being carried out through some sort of computer interface (maybe VR since this is the future). | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 10:17 | comment | added | elemtilas | Point understood. However, the question regards surgery. "Warning" is rather assumed by query type in my opinion. | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 10:14 | comment | added | Brian H. | I feel like most of these images are better off as links with some sort of warning... | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 1:39 | comment | added | elemtilas | Thanks, @JBH! It was a fun answer to write. Even with futuristic technology, barring some kind of robot that does all the hard work, the premise just doesn't make sense. Too many difficulties. Too much potential for terminal errors. | |
| Nov 27, 2018 at 23:04 | comment | added | JBH | Thank you for posting the only sensible answer to this question! | |
| S Nov 27, 2018 at 21:41 | history | edited | elemtilas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Nov 27, 2018 at 21:41 | history | suggested | user50780 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2018 at 21:06 | history | answered | elemtilas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |