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Old 03-05-2020, 06:03 PM
ummin032 ummin032 is offline
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Originally Posted by JackBauer View Post
Amazing that you saw a spine doctor who actually recommended going to Germany.

That gives me hope that there are at least SOME progressive doctors in our healthcare system.
I feel pretty glad I did. I mentioned it to one of the other surgeons afterward, the one who suggested a decompression, and he said he loved doing them in the neck, but doesn't feel comfortable doing them in the lumbar spine due to lack of longitudinal studies.

I took it as he clearly believes in the technology, and will probably be doing them in the lumbar spine in not that long..

Another interesting point about the doctor who suggested ADR — she was speaking to me as a favor of a friend, and wasn't in my network. Thus she had no incentive to guide me to any particular solution for any reason beyond helping me...
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2018
- Sciatica came on, thought it was a leg injury from overtraining on my bike

2019
- Diagnosed with collapsed L5-S1
- Received epidural injection to no benefit
- Started (and am still doing) PT which provides some relief

2020
- Exploring options to leave a pain free and active life

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