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Originally Posted by Cynlite
Gene, I'm so glad TBI is going to work out for you. Did you send the surgeon a package ahead to time? Perhaps I should consider him too. What did your surgeon say if anything about putting the Mobi-C next to you fused level?
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Cynlite, I was thinking about sending a package ahead of time, but decided to see him directly (did not want to wait 3 weeks). This past Tuesday (Mar 24th) I flew from Newark to DFW, went to TBI on Wednesday morning and by 2:00 pm was back at the airport, having made the decision. Dr Blumenthal works with multiple devices and felt the Mobi-C would be the best for numerous reasons, one of those being that it's good adjacent to a fused level. He was very confident that based on my lifestyle I should have ADR at the C5/C6 level which was clearly getting worse over time. He felt no need for C6/C7 as he felt the disc was still in good shape. With ADR at C5/C6, it would likely remain that way.
Gene
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Car Accident 2002 - Small Herniated Disc C3/C4
1998 Larger Herniation and Cervical Fusion C3/C4
2005 Herniation C4/C5 - 40 epidural steroid injections from Oct 2005, - Oct, 2007
2008 - Foraminotomy at C6/C7 on left side
Feb, 2010 - Cervical Fusion C4/C5
Dec, 2010 - Lumbar Fusion L3/L5
2013 - Bulge on C5/C6; herniation C6/C7 right side
Mar 26, 2013 - Foraminotomy at C6/C7 on right side
May 5, 2015 - ADR with Dr Blumenthal of TBI for C5/C6 using Mobi-C
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