, but never had a hip replacement hardware ... I had broken bones that would not heal ... The last surgery was on 04/2017 removing ... of my left femur (girdlestone) and removing ... It was my fourth surgery, removed lots

I did have spine surgery at Mayo, and ... had to recover and rehab from that ... because of stopping therapy during healing ... 4 months because I didn't want hardware ... rebuilding the muscle I lost before surgery

Removing and replacing discs with cages ... the fusion with bone spurs that are removed ... It took about 3 months to heal and for ... The incision heals in about 6 weeks. ... of that time because I opted for no hardware

answer you question, this will not heal ... Surgery with hardware will also require ... patience in healing. ... that when all the old dental work was removed ... good question to ask if it can be removed

The “healing” of your L2 vertebrae bone ... Surgery will be in my near future again ... (just had my lumbar spine surgery in ... August 2024 and still recovering. ... fusion of C5-C6 and will add more hardware

Immediate MRI and surgery - It was resected ... The hardware implanted in the bone flap ... Had a washout surgery for infection ... Extreme headaches required removal of ... Flap had not healed to surrounding bone

Posterior hardware removed the following ... The muscles were twisted so another surgery ... that unfortunately removed “steak sized ... the doctor for a short time but it heals ... Hope for healing. Theresa

infected, the reason being infected hardware ... which then had to be removed before ... bone flap could heal. ... happen - even after weeks from the surgery

Of course healing an ankle fracture ... my cervical spine surgery, and in saying ... that, my spine surgery was a single ... level simple anterior ACDF surgery ... Judging after everything was healed,

space the thickness of a disc that was removed ... body was directing all my energy to healing ... of the body to do it's magic in healing ... because I asked for a fusion without hardware ... different in what we need and how we recover

." After 5 joint replacement surgeries ... and numerous other joint surgeries, ... 14 months, she still has only 80% healing ... and cannot have the hardware removed ... So it definitely suppresses healing

I had hip replacement surgery in November ... They removed the hardware and put in ... unless I have the spacer and other hardware ... removed from my hip. ... Please let me know what your healing

site at rest, and 6 months after the surgery ... had to wait at least a year for bone healing ... , but I had the surgical hardware removed ... removed. ... removed after the fracture has healed

I did elect to have titanium hardware ... removed after I healed from an ankle ... After removing the hardware, those issues ... both dental work and the surgical hardware ... I am a spine surgery patient too, but

@cbove2 You cannot recover from spine ... normally takes about 6 weeks to heal ... When a disc is removed during a fusion ... spinal cord that will be opened up by removing ... had a single level fusion without hardware

I had my hardware removed a month ago ... I still have healing pain, but it is ... I would ask if hardware can be removed ... and spine hardware can be removed then ... My surgeon told me it heals best with

It took about 9 months to heal the fractures-alternating ... Fusion surgery in 2020 and removal of ... hardware in 2021.

It is hard to wait for surgery when ... happened during the injury is still not healed ... I chose not to have hardware on my spine ... in the house (like laundry) as you recover ... is directing all your energy toward healing

had L3-L5 decompression and fusion surgery ... symptoms are improved while in the healing ... spondylolisthesis) so they needed to use hardware ... movement and support fusion plus they removed ... I had my surgery done by an orthopedic

fusion began because I don't have hardware ... higher because it's part of the healing ... confront my fears, and I was able to recover ... Pain is a normal pain of healing. ... can join the discussion on Art for Healing