The Philadelphia Surgery Center Announces Re-Opening

PHILADELPHIA, June 10, 2020 (Newswire.com) -  ​The Philadelphia Surgery Center in Narberth, PA, is re-opening after a four week COVID-19 pandemic closure. The Philadelphia Surgery Center is a highly respected specialty surgery center on the Main Line of Philadelphia.

To re-open, the Center has taken a number of COVID precautionary safety measures. Patients coming for outpatient "NANO" endoscopic spine procedures must have a negative nasal or naso-pharyngeal swab test for COVID​-19 in their home city, then again at a designated location in the Philadelphia area. Also, the Center requires that their physician provide additional telemedicine medical clearance.

The Philadelphia Surgery Center uniquely offers "NANO," ultra-small lumbar spine procedures. These are out-patient, done with only local anesthesia and IV sedation. They are not at all damaging to the normal spine, therefore they are not intrinsically harmful, like larger operations. Partial discectomy "NANO" procedures are primarily performed by Dr. Ditsworth, neurosurgeon, who comes regularly from California, where he developed these procedures. He believes strongly in “primum non nocere” ("first do no harm"). Dr. Ditsworth works with and trains some of the local doctors who are at the Philadelphia Surgery Center.

The first patient to come to Dr. Ditsworth upon his re-opening was a dentist from Florida, who was up and walking one hour after his procedure, something he had not been able to do for three weeks. “I had the surgery yesterday, went out, was walking again which is amazing - out of pain - slept great last night,” he said in a post-operative interview. https://youtu.be/9gLw8Ztb-ww

Spine procedures, only available at the Philadelphia Surgery Center (www.philadelphiasurgerycenter.com and the Back Institute of Beverly Hills in CA  (www.BackInstitute.com), are provided. These centers have become the doctors’ destinations of choice for their own small spine procedures instead of larger, inherently traumatic operations. The main difference economically between the Philadelphia Surgery Center and the Back Institute Surgery Center of Beverly Hills is that the former is in network with insurance companies, whereas the latter is out of network with all insurance companies.

About Dr. David A. Ditsworth:
Former Chief of Neurosurgery at The Beverly Hills Hospital and Medical Center and current Chief at Back Institute of Beverly Hills. He developed the ultra-small (NANO) lumbar endoscopic partial discectomy for treating herniated and bulging discs in the spine without trauma, has written over 40 peer-reviewed abstracts, articles, and book chapters and is one of the leading experts in the world in his field.

By Danaya Geer
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Source: Philadelphia Surgery Center