Sue,
I find your post a little alarming. Hope you can expand on your "signature" a bit.
What jumps out at me is that you're having a fusion at an adjacent disc level just 2 YEARS post ADR????
Since you had Kineflex..I am thinking it's likely you were a participant in a Kineflex ADR clinical trial.
Did you specifically and medically determine that your L4/5 was healthy before entering the clincal trial on your L5/S1 or did they think your L5/S1 was worse and somehow you still got into the trial when you where really a 2 level candidate before your ADR trial.
Do you understand what I'm getting at? Because the point of ADR is to preserve motion so you don't need another surgery at an adjacent level, especially so soon.
Just raises a red flag! Hope you can shed some light onto your specific circumstances.
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Injured 9/01
Annular tears L4/5 & L5/S1
denied adr by insurance for 2 level charite as well as hybrid fusion at L5/S1 with Charite at L4/5.
New ins paid for 2 level lumbar prodisc surgery on 4/7/08 (at age 39) with Dr. Westerlund, at Core Orthop
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