Medical Animation, Lumbar Interbody Fusion

This medical animation illustrates the surgial procedure for implanting titanium interverteberal cages for stabilization and fusion. Another patient education movie from ghOst Productions.

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• surgery
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• lumbar
• spine

[scavenski]

on a low price of $999.99.....

btw, decompression is a lot better then any surgery for disc bulge

[Limpandtotheleft]

@gnamaree Ah, yes.

I can't work out how chiropractic can effect a cure when the problem is a simple mechanical issue of eroded discs, diminished inter-vertebral gaps, and an unstable spine.

I've been using an osteopath for some years who's been able to get my back re-aligned, but the time's now come when surgical intervention is the only option.

Frankly, looking at the claims as to what chiropractic can 'cure' reads like quack medicine of the highest order.

[Limpandtotheleft]

@smhillis

I'm way down the path to having two, and hopefully 3, ADRs done.

As far as I cans see, there's no reason why inversion should be an issue. The metal 'bearing surfaces' are keyed into the bone, and as normal intervertebral distance is restored there's far less room for destabilising movement than there is with the pre-op spine.

Ask your surgeon,or even write directly to the manufacturers.

[smhillis]

@emh2003deer I'm thinking about doing fusion over ADR and the reason is because I don't know if I have any confidence in the artificial disc. Let me ask you this: Can any artificial disc take an inverted position? If you were to hang upside are any artificial discs on the market designed to be in that position? I don't know, I'm wondering cause I would like to know.

[gnamaree]

I love how chiropractors get a some additional training and think they know how to fix degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis. Thanks to HIGHY QUALIFIED AND RECOMMENDED chirorpractors after two rear end collisions and 15 years of sciatica, I am totally disabled and seeing a neurologist for a year, having my 2nd MRI tomorrow, and have my referral to a neurosurgeon in two weeks.

[emh2003deer]

spinal fusion is a stone age remedy for degenerative disks... just causes more stress on adjacent disks, and increases likelihood of more surgery in future..try ADR

[LAbackandbody]

I never said adjusting was the cure. don't judge a book by it's cover. dc is my license.

read my argument, then talk to me.

most doctors don't give you the whole story. if they did, people wouldn't be so agreeable to surgery. they are operating, literally, on a flawed premise.

this chiro has re-written the book on back pain. your orthopedist will have to come to me for the deeper truth.

[LAbackandbody]

dc is my license. I never said adjusting was the cure. don't judge a book by it's cover. read my argument, then talk to me.

educate yourself on the facts, because most doctors won't. when it comes to back pain, the top "experts" are operating, literally, on a flawed premise. it's all understandable, they don't know any better.

this chiro has rewritten the book on back pain, and your ortho will have to consult w/ me to get the straight dope.

[greatsexgames]

I thought you chiropractors had given up on back pain now that you have cured cancer and the common cold. It is really too bad you can't prove a singe chiropractic theory using a double blind study, I mean, unless of course the FACT that chiropractic care is as equally effective over the same time scale as NO TREATMENT at all. Bunch'a quacks I say.

[garys737]

When one (over dramatizes) as in the biased liberal media, and this commercial you loose any credibility (as is the case of TV media that few thinking people watch.

You have done so with this video.

Consider a less hyped approach and you may have an educated audience pay some attention to your commercial.

Dr. Sachs