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Old 06-13-2005, 11:00 AM
paulam310 paulam310 is offline
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bclervi, thanks for your PM. I am slowly getting better, I would like to emphasize "slowly." It takes time for the body to recover from such invasive surgery. Prodisc is not FDA approved yet. There are clinical trials happening around the country at special designated sites. If you need only one level for the low back and you qualify for the trial, you could probably get it at any of the locations. Anytime you deal with low back multiple levels or the cervical levels, there are fewer prodisc sites that seem to be willing to do them. If you need more info on this let me know. As you see I was a 3 level cervical. My doctor doesn't seem to be having much trouble getting the adr surgery approved. They told me before surgery how much my insurance would pay. My doctor is even doing surgery on 2 and even 3 level worker's comp adr patients. Hope this info helps.
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