"I was getting very, very restricted in what I could do," Sandberg, 69, lamented to The Post. "It was hard to get anywhere."
Dr. Charla R. Fischer explains the surgery: "If there's a lot of arthritis in [the facet joints], you can get an outpouching of that joint capsule, and that's called a facet cyst. It was pushing on his nerve roots and contributing to a lot of his pain."
Fischer made two tiny incisions - one for a camera and another for her tools - and removed the joint with the cyst and the entire intervertebral disc, replacing it with a disc implant.
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