Mark K. Chang This is Me

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1. 1. Ingalls Memorial Hospital 708-333-2300

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   Published on: 9/26/2003   Last Visited: 9/25/2005

   (May, 2003) Mark K. Chang, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon on staff at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, is one of only 20 doctors in the nation - and the only one in the Chicago area - performing a revolutionary new procedure to treat herniated discs and other disc-related problems.
   
   The new procedure, called arthroscopic microdiscectomy or AMD, replaces many laminectomy or discectomy surgeries and is much less invasive than traditional back surgery.
   
   "Eighty percent of Americans suffer from lumbar spine disability some time during their lives," explains Chang.
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   "AMD offers many advantages over the open invasive techniques," Chang said. "Unlike other surgically invasive treatments for herniated disc, AMD is performed on an outpatient basis. And because the procedure is minimally invasive, there is less risk to the patient, less pain, a lower risk of infection and a quicker recovery. In most cases, patients can return to normal activities within one to two weeks."
   
   Chang performed the first procedure at Ingalls last fall on 50-year-old Christine Hermanowicz of South Holland.
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   Following several rounds of physical therapy and two epidural steroid injections, which failed to relieve the pain, Chang recommended the new procedure.
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   A noted author and lecturer, Chang has performed 60 of the procedures since becoming an orthopedic surgeon seven years ago. He received highly specialized training to perform AMD by nationally renowned orthopedic surgeon Parviz Kambin, M.D., director of the Disc Treatment and Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.