Great presentation Richard! To your rhetorical question about DEXA, I must answer with a resounding "yes!!!!", DEXA should become mandatory prior to ADR. It's insane to me that a surgeon would install an ADR without first getting a DEXA taken. And as a patient, I would tell people considering ADR to INSIST upon a DEXA first.
Although my DEXA results showed I was ok for ADR, it also - quite unexpectedly - showed my hips were in terrible condition. This led to a vitamin D blood test, which showed I was deficient.
Dave
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Toronto, Canada
41 years old
1997: L5-S1 left-side disc herniation
epidurals and perivertebral injections
Jan 23, 2009: discotomy in Toronto
July 2009: L5-S1 left-side further herniation
epidurals and perivertebral injections
June 8, 2010: L5-S1 Activ L ADR by Dr. Zeegers at Beta Klinik
https://sites.google.com/site/daveadr2010/
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