{"id":243115,"date":"2025-02-28T15:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/rapid-and-painless-recovery-the-case-of-a-patient-with-spondylolisthesis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:43:50","slug":"rapid-and-painless-recovery-the-case-of-a-patient-with-spondylolisthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/en\/rapid-and-painless-recovery-the-case-of-a-patient-with-spondylolisthesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid and Painless Recovery: The Case of a Patient with Spondylolisthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">D. Maria (fictitious name), 64 years old, had long suffered from intense pain in the lower back and legs, which limited her daily life. After examination, she was diagnosed with <strong>grade 2\/3 spondylolisthesis<\/strong>, a condition in which one vertebra slips forward over the other, causing pain and instability in the spine.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Captura-de-ecra-2025-02-27-as-21.22.20-1-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-242674\" style=\"width:428px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Captura-de-ecra-2025-02-27-as-21.22.20-1-edited.png 890w, https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Captura-de-ecra-2025-02-27-as-21.22.20-1-edited-480x360.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 890px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To restore her quality of life, we opted for a <strong>minimally invasive surgery<\/strong> \u2013 um <strong>ALIF (Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion) with percutaneous screws<\/strong>. This approach allowed for a <strong>complete correction of the spinal misalignment<\/strong>, with less tissue aggression and a faster recovery.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Captura-de-ecra-2025-02-27-as-21.22.30.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-242669\" style=\"width:429px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Captura-de-ecra-2025-02-27-as-21.22.30.png 720w, https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Captura-de-ecra-2025-02-27-as-21.22.30-480x469.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 720px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result? <strong>In just 24 hours, D. Maria was discharged from the hospital,<\/strong> and a few weeks later, she had already resumed her activities without pain and with renewed mobility.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cases like this demonstrate how modern spine surgery can transform lives, allowing for a quick return to normalcy and without limitations.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you suffer from chronic back pain, <strong>there is a solution!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D. Maria (fictitious name), 64 years old, had long suffered from intense pain in the lower back and legs, which limited her daily life. After examination, she was diagnosed with grade 2\/3 spondylolisthesis, a condition in which one vertebra slips forward over the other, causing pain and instability in the spine. To restore her quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lumbar-fusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243118,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243115\/revisions\/243118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelportela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}