Disc replacement surgery

Rangerguru · Post by **Rangerguru** » March 23rd, 2007, 7:31 am

My back doctor told me that I would be a prime candidate for this procedure a couple of years ago, but he wanted to wait until it had been tried out on more people to see what the results would be. After reading this, I might go get it done, the other alternatives are fusing, or lots of drugs, which I refuse to take.

LINK

DixieRat · Post by **DixieRat** » March 23rd, 2007, 7:38 am

Interesting article. My wife has degenerative disks in her neck which cause her to have extreme neck pain on ocaision. Fusion has been offered to her as a solution, which she has refused. I'd be more interested
in a solution like this if they were using artificial disks material or disks grown from her own tissue.

Thanks for the link.

Rangerguru · Post by **Rangerguru** » March 23rd, 2007, 7:40 am

it says discs from human donors, so I'm assuming dead guys.

289sotherhalf · Post by **289sotherhalf** » March 23rd, 2007, 8:58 am

That's a pretty interesting article, Ranger Rangerguru. I wonder when there is going to be some more research done on it, it might benefit alot of people.

Hopefully the tissue will be handled properly, too. I know cadaver tissue is used in hundreds of thousands of procedures every year, but fiascos like that mess with BTS-- http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1902764&page=1 , can make you think twice about having some procedures.