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Old 01-04-2019, 11:56 AM
annapurna annapurna is offline
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This is from a while back but it's worth bringing up again. Zeegers came to the US west coast for a conference about ADR surgeries over a decade ago, back when sources of information like this board were few and far between. Because of that, many of the potential ADR patients attended conferences in hopes of learning about the state of the art ADRs and surgeries.

On one slide, Zeegers threw up a MRI image showing a patient with a horribly desiccated and collapsed disk immediately below another disk with an extremely mild bulge then challenged the audience to point out which of the two were causing the patient pain. The mild bulge was the source of all of the pain the patience experienced. His moral of the story: pathology isn't the best predictor of pain.

If you feel your disks hurt and you're willing to go through to make sure it isn't nerve impingement or facets, then seek treatment for the disks and don't buy in to a doctor telling you that they shouldn't hurt because they aren't "bad enough."
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Laura - L5S1 Charitee
C5/6 and 6/7 Prodisc C
Facet problems L4-S1
General joint hypermobility

Jim - C4/5, C5/6, L4/5 disk bulges and facet damage, L4/5 disk tears, currently using regenerative medicine to address

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