subject: rubber band surgery [print this page] Rubber band surgery is used for different medical reasons and is a very modern and useful method to simplify difficult surgeries and make them less painful and less risky. Rubber band surgery is employed for weight loss surgical procedures as well as for removing internal hemorrhoids. It can also be used for closing large skin defects.
What is rubber band surgery?
Rubber Band Surgery is surgery that involves the use of rubber bands for various reasons; the main reason is for ligations. The rubber band surgeries have various advantages especially because a rubber band can be placed over a vessel or a hemorrhoid very easily and this procedure does not require an incision that is close to the part of your body that needs the ligation. It can be any type of surgery a non-invasive one or an invasive-one but the use of rubber bands is necessary to have to call it by this name.
What is this surgery used for?
This surgery is used for various reasons. Firstly the rubber band is used to make ligations and cut off blood supply for some part of the body or cut off some part of a system from the circulation of fluids. In whatever procedure that might require this type of ligation, rubber bands can be used.
Removing hemorrhoids is one of the main procedures that rubber bands are used for. Hemorrhoids cause internal bleeding in the rectal area and can be stopped by the use of rubber bands.
Lap band surgery is used for weight loss this is not an open surgery and is quicker and less painful. Moreover, adjustable bands can be used to control the weight loss curve.
Rubber bands can also be used to close skin defects simply by using their elastic property to tighten the skin around the defect to speed up the process of healing. This is a much better way to close large skin defects than the use of surgical procedures.
The advantages of using rubber bands
This kind of surgery has many medical advantages.
Firstly, surgeries that use rubber bands are non-invasive and require minimal incisions. They are therefore less painful and less difficult.
Secondly, the elastic quality of these rubber bands make the procedures last long and have relatively less side effects that any other kind of surgery that would have been conducted otherwise.
In the gastric lap band surgery, the procedure is much less painful and has a very short recovery time. The use of adjustable bands make it possible to control the weight loss curve, which is most necessary, especially if the patient is, for example, a woman who wants to become pregnant in the future.
Rubber bands have made the removal of hemorrhoids also much easier as the rubber bands can be inserted with the help of an anoscope and do not require any invasive surgery. Moreover, this is one of the best and most effective techniques that are used to remove hemorrhoids and have relatively less side effects.
