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Surgical solutions to chronic cervical/back pain
Spine Health | Last Active: Jul 11, 2018 | Replies (52)Comment receiving replies
Hello @jenapower,
I would like to invite @jrchicago to this conversation. @jrchicago has talked about having a disc replacement surgery in Barcelona in the past and may be able to answer some of your questions regarding disc replacements vs. fusions. @jenapower, while we wait for jrchicago to join, what questions in particular do you have about replacement vs. fusion for them?
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Re fusions and disc replacements. I would love to hear replies from those who had any of these procedure and are in good shape. My Ortho stopped doing back surgery because he was tired of so many failures. I have yet to meet one success story. Am told a year later a other dics goes bad, and all these patients I've talked to say they would not do again if they had to do it all over again. Any back surgery success stories out there? Signed victorious69.
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Thanks, one of my questions is if a replacement disc fails, is removal and fusion what is done as a repair? Also, my Dr does do disc replacement, but I'm wondering about multi-level disc replacements. If they are done I've read and been told that they can replace 2 levels and possibly fuse the third. How successful would this be and is it done often? What type of results?
Thanks, Jennifer