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Anyone with osteoporosis had the the TOPS system placed?
Spine Health | Last Active: Mar 24 9:40am | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
Play recently saw a well-known surgeon who is one of the few in the country who puts in the TOPS device instead of fusion. I have osteoporosis, not severe in most places but at any rate I read that that device is not advised for people with osteoporosis but the surgeon is recommending it saying it would be better for me than fusion. Has anyone had the device put in who also has osteoporosis and it worked out? I have many gifts that are degenerating, one reason cited by the majority of surgeons who do fusion that tops wouldn't work for me.
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Where do you live? I think you answered or commented on another post I made a while ago. Maybe recommended a doctor even? Are you in the Chicago area?
Not yet but my initial injury to my spine was traumatic.
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As an old spine patient I had stainless steel plates and screws implanted in 1990, then considered state of the art. They now know that placing stationary plates causes vertebrae above the fusion to deteriorate. It appears the TOPS device permits spinal movement where mine does not. The long term pain issues and activity limiting I have encountered is partially due to my fusion. I was offered in 2016 to replace my steel with titanium but I’m not sufficiently debilitated to want unneeded spine surgery again. If I was in your shoes I’d go for the TOPS but research your surgeon and make sure they’ve done plenty of these before you dive in. I’m a Jefferson patient too. Which doc suggested the TOPS?
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