LP-ESP artificial disc experience
 

Hi there,

does anyone have any experience with the LP-ESP? Or does anyone know anybody who has this one 'built in'?

I misspelled the letters and thought my surgeon would want to use the prodisc, almost lost faith in him and was very worried, but thanks to a great member on this board, I was pointed towards the actual device and it sounds very good. But before I trust and follow my surgeon it would be great to hear any first hand experience.

It would be great if anyone could help.


Cheers
Chris

This disc looks promising. I wonder why we haven't heard anything about it?

I have heard it mentioned on Bandscheibenvorfallf Forum. You could do a search there see if anyone has had it implanted. Here are a couple articles about clinical research.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3567327/

http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/42824.pdf

Looks quite interesting.

There is a surgeon in Leer Germany, Dr. Hamid Afshar, who has had good results with this particular disc.

Not sure why we do not read about more of these discs being implanted They appear to have good science behind them

I consulted with a French neurosurgeon regarding this device before I made the choice I made.

The problem with this particular device is that viscoelastic ADRs IMO should have a keel due to the axial twist-back rotation where a non-keeled device might have an issue. Not always an issue. I know some who had a Freedom, and they did just fine.