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Old 01-14-2019, 11:08 AM
Robb235 Robb235 is offline
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Just an update, I am also reaching out to Texas Back Institute. I've sent them my paperwork and my MRI, and I'm waiting on Dr. Blumenthal to review the information and get back to me. In the mean time, I did have a consult with Dr. Scott Hodges here in Chattanooga (local). He is the surgeon that does the BalancedBack, where he flies you to the Cayman Islands and replaces both the disc and the facets from the posterior. BalancedBack isn't approved by the FDA, and obviously insurance doesn't cover it. Dr. Hodges also told me he does perform ADRs with the ActivL. When I asked him how many surgeries he had performed with the ActivL, he told me "a handful", which to me means probably not that many. I'm sure he's a very skilled surgeon considering his success with the BalancedBack, but I think I'd rather have someone who has done more than "a handful" of ActivL disk replacements.


Hoping that Dr. Blumenthal contacts me soon.

I figure I also should have posted an MRI image from this view as well.
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2 August 2017 - Herniated L5/S1 while doing sprints (at age 30)
20 December 2018 - MRI revealed massive L5/S1 extrusion
5 March 2019 - ActivL ADR at Texas Back with Dr. Blumenthal (at age 31)
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