It isn’t a new technique because its inventor, prof. Daniel s. J. Choy of the new york columbia university, has invented it in mid ’80 and the first case on a patient was performed in february 1986 in austria by prof. Choy and prof. Peter asher (director of the department of neurosurgery at the university of graz). The fda (foods and drugs administration) american approved the pldd, after 5 years of deepened scientific investigations, in 1991. The important facts are two about this issue:
1) it is un known not only by patients but also by many doctors. The pldd has over 27 years of scientific background and it is estimate that more than 150,000 patients today have been treated with pldd worldwide .
2) the use of pldd has been strongly adversed in italy but also in other countries of the world because, unfortunately, there are huge economic interests regarding the “disc hernia ” chapter