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Looking for people who had a disc totally worn away, GOKHALE method
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Thank you for your response. Did they have to do fusion to keep the spacer in place and if you don't mind me asking where did you have the surgery done? Your case sounds very similar to mine so that's very encouraging but so far the doctors I've spoken to have only offered fusion and my own surgeon said he was reticent to do that because there are often problems above and below the fused area requiring more surgery. Again I'd love to know where you did this surgery so I could contact them.
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I live in New England and went to Ortho RI (Dr. Ian Madom).
Dr. Madom put cages in between my L3-L4 and L4-L5 vertebrae and used some of my own bone to create the “cement” to fill the cages for fusion. Using your own bone helps your body accept the fusion material. They needed to cut away so much to give space to my spinal cord/nerve roots so they had plenty of my own bone for this “cement.” When they did the ACDF fusion on my C5-C6, they used my bone spurs that were removed due to causing compression on my spinal cord/nerve roots.