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Old 02-04-2015, 07:32 PM
NJ Gene NJ Gene is offline
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Karger,

Just to clarify, 95% of people who have ADR at L5/S1 do very well (at least according to what I've read). It does tend to have a higher rate of failure as compared to some of the other levels. It also happens to be a level where fusion is less likely to cause Adjacent Segment Disease.

Note, I am not a doctor, but I've spent a lot of time reading these boards and have learned this from others. I do know from reading these boards and speaking to a couple people who had failed ADR at L5/S1 how debilitating it can be.

If it were me and I had to do the levels L4/L5 and L5/S1 and insurance only covered one level of ADR, I would opt to have L4/L5 done by ADR and L5/S1 fused. That's just me. I'm sure many others will have something to say on this.

Gene
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Car Accident 2002 - Small Herniated Disc C3/C4
1998 Larger Herniation and Cervical Fusion C3/C4
2005 Herniation C4/C5 - 40 epidural steroid injections from Oct 2005, - Oct, 2007
2008 - Foraminotomy at C6/C7 on left side
Feb, 2010 - Cervical Fusion C4/C5
Dec, 2010 - Lumbar Fusion L3/L5
2013 - Bulge on C5/C6; herniation C6/C7 right side
Mar 26, 2013 - Foraminotomy at C6/C7 on right side
May 5, 2015 - ADR with Dr Blumenthal of TBI for C5/C6 using Mobi-C
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