The thing is - hydrodiscectomy, PLDD, nucleoplasty, IDET, etc. are all "blind" procedures.
The "bone drilling" approaches sound aggressive and invasive, but the truth is that there is really few drilling there. Sometimes, it makes sense to drill and go inside the disc with the endoscope.
Not sure who is near KY, but try SpineUniverse specialist search tool. Concentrate on specialist's CV's. Look where they were educated and with who.
Leaders in MISS field in USA are J. Chiu (California Spine Institute) and Anthony Yeung (Desert Institute for Spine Care). There are definitely some more good MISS surgeons, Mark can note some of them.
I also give my vote to anesthesiologist, dr. Atif Malik at Advanced Pain Management. He has completed few MISS fellowships, especially with Thomas Hoogland...and he has great results with endoscopic surgeries. Look
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