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Understanding surgeon speak and the different approaches to fusion
Spine Health | Last Active: Dec 19, 2025 | Replies (47)Comment receiving replies
@annie1 If you are comfortable using AI you can get a lot of information about international surgery. Surgeon's here are more comfortable with fusion and probably do too many. because of familiarity and reimbursement. If you live near a major teaching hospital you can probably find docs who make more individualized surgical plans.
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Actually I live near many major teaching hospitals in New York City and I find the opposite is true they seem to not want to do anything very different all of them are saying fusion except one woman who said I should not have fusion she didn't think it would help me but you didn't have anything else to offer for me except physical therapy that has no effect on my symptoms and she told me to try acupuncture which also had no effect did not help I tried it with several different acupuncture. So I am at a loss for where to go that's why I thought maybe in Europe since they do less fusion that I have no clue as to where to go and what country they would speak English. I was in Spain and had a very rude wake up call that hardly anyone wanted to speak English to me and it was very difficult.