Thanks for posting - and I saw your other post too about your surgeon. The whole reason I had to go abroad was that my ins co wouldn't pay for fusion and I had contraindications to a prodisc. I had no other option... the whole thing is very frustrating, and despite all of this, there are still pts having surgery who shouldn't, and it's costing us a ton of money as a nation. There aren't enough good, unbiased studies about LBP, DDD, etc to guide surgeons, pts, or ins co's. Ugh.
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