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Brett (and John),

Condolences on your terrible dilemma.

I don't know if you should go with what the Canadian doctors are telling you, or if you should go with what Boeree and Clavel are telling you. I can tell you that in reading these forums that I have never seen a kind word written about the Canadian medical system where spine issues are concerned; and what I've seen posted about Boeree and Clavel has been almost universal praise.

My situation was so much easier; six opinions, five of them were identical; a two level ADR. Clavel did my cervical ADRs, and I've been able to resume all activities that are not contra-indicated by the fact that two of the strongest structures that hold my head to my body had to be removed for ADR. BTW: when I was in Barcelona for surgery, I was one of two foreign patients that Clavel had at the time. The other guy was a Canadian lumbar patient who could not get treatment within the Canadian system.

Would it be possible for you to visit a US ADR surgeon? Or better yet, multiple ADR surgeons? They would probably come down somewhere between the Canadian and European surgeons; probably closer to the Europeans. I would strongly ditto Joey Sue's words; accept trash talk about ADR only from a surgeon that has some experience with ADR. If I were to tell you that Chevrolet's were terrible cars, but I'd never actually even seen one ...

Good luck, Jeff