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Old 07-27-2011, 08:56 AM
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Christina,

Everything I've read about Dr Zigler suggests that if he says that the ProDisc-C is correctly placed, then it is correctly placed. As one of the lead investigators in the Systhes ProDisc-C IDE, he possibly has more experience with and knowledge of the ProDisc than any other surgeon in the US.

Did the discogram suggest that C4/5 and C5/6 were also generating pain? Or had they just started showing DDD? Were the facet blocks done because Dr Zigler believes that they are pain generators? Or were they diagnostic?

I suppose that Dr Zigler is going to your insurance company with a surgical prescription of multilevel ADR? If so, is he planning to use two more ProDisc's? NeoDisc?

Good luck, Jeff
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