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Looking for people who had a disc totally worn away, GOKHALE method
Spine Health | Last Active: Jun 10 12:21pm | Replies (7)Comment receiving replies
@annie1
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.
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Okay thank you. I have osteoporosis so I am being treated for that before I can have any fusion since my bones would be strong enough to hold anything. That's why they're being very cautious with me. I don't have a surgeon picked out I've been interviewing surgeons literally all over the country. I have to wait till my bones get strong enough I'm on the bone building medication for osteoporosis.