[ZorroSF]

don't ever underestimate your condition. Unless you're an ace at spine surgery and you're the best rehab specialist in the world, then you'll never be prepared enough.

You want to research which disc is causing the pain. Sometimes, like in my case, my facets were to blame and not neccessarily the disc. Had I known my facets were the pain generator it would've given the doctors a better idea that I was not a candidate for ADR and should've had a fusion.

Don't rush into surgery thinking you know it all. Nothing worse to come out of surgery to find out one year later that you're in the same or worse pain than you were pre-op.


BTW 1 daniel burnham court is just an office center. It looks like he works out of california pacific medical center. I think that's in laurel heights and has great nurses, so you'd be in good hands. I'm not sure about St. Luke's, never looked into it. It also looks like he uses charite instead of prodisc. I don't think it really matters.