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As someone who is going through some much milder spinal stenosis, I find it extremely frustrating that fusion is still the most common surgical procedure to add
by djohnston 8y ago
As someone who is going through some much milder spinal stenosis, I find it extremely frustrating that fusion is still the most common surgical procedure to address it. Aside from being as effective as conservative treatments over 10 years, it deforms the spine further and puts more strain on neighboring disks. I don't know what the long term outcome is of ADL's, but it seems that they at least preserve spinal anatomy.
- arkades 8y agoWhether conservative treatment is equivalent to surgery varies with underlying cause of stenosis and what disks are involved. The blanket statement that conservative treatment is as effective as surgery over 10 years is highly false.
- Abishek_Muthian 8y ago(OP) I wonder whether spine fusion surgeries can be compared with conservative treatments (I presume which means less intrusive). I was asked to fill 5 consent forms acknowledging the risks of undergoing the surgery, 5th was supposedly a handwritten one explaining I understand that the surgery might result in my death. I asked a doc to write it himself & I signed it.