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Old 05-14-2015, 11:41 AM
Dema Dema is offline
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Hi Anne, sorry to hear about your pain in the neck! I too have multi-level cervical problems (3-levels) and still searching for the right surgeon. Fully agree with NJGene, that it has been hard to find a surgeon in this area promoting ADR! The 2 exceptions in NY/NJ area were Dr. Fabien Bitan & Dr. Jeff Goldstein, but I did not want to do ProDisc, so cancelled my surgery appointment with Dr. Bitan.
Like you, the surgeons' recommendations varied on number of levels to operate on, between 2 or 3, and currently waiting for more opinions from Europe to help me decide! I would like to do the levels that are causing me the pain, and leave the ones that are non-symptomatic, and hope will not have to do them later or by then more devices will be FDA approved & the surgeons here be more familiar with ADR.
Best of luck.
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7/2007 Whiplash injury
11/2009 Cervical disc herniation C3-C6 (C5-C6 worse)
2010-2013 Conservative treatments (drugs, PT, epidurals, prolotherapy, acupuncture...etc)
, little effect on pain
Considering surgery (typical questions, which type & which surgeon!)
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