It is the insurance companies who don't want to pay for the hybrid, not the doctors not being able to do it. If you could pay for the doc to do it yourself, it wouldn't be a problem. That being said, my current doc, the one whose name I gave you here in SF suggested I go out of the country to get this done.
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Multiple traumas to spine starting age 13.
1st American to have 6 ADR's in one surgery. C3-4 - C/7, & L5-S1 - L3-4.
Surgery w/ Dr. Clavel, 3/18/13, M6.
Before surgery: severe spinal stenosis C5/C6 (cord "flattened" per stateside doc), + for Hoffman's & Babinsky's.
At time of surgery: 5 yrs MAX before ending up in wheelchair.
Clavel found L5-S1 partially fused. Had to cut it apart to put in M6.
Please excuse brevity - SEVERE carpel tunnel.
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