This is a very good report from CBS News based on 6 months of research concerning a controversial type of spine surgery called spinal fusion. The website has both a video and text of the story. Although this procedure has good evidence of benefit for a few conditions such as instability and sciatica from stenosis or narrowing of the spine, most of the time it is done for conditions with much less evidence of efficacy such as disc degeneration. I have patients who have had fusions and it is usually more difficult to get them relief, especially when multiple segments were fused.
Has anyone had experience with this procedure?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tapping-into-controversial-back-surgeries/
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