Just wondering what the smallest size curve was that anyone's has fused.
Mine is thoracolumbar and is steady at roughly 35 degrees but is quite rotated and painful. Ive had L3/4 fused, a disc replacement at L4/5 and fusion at L5/S1 in 2 previous surgeries for DDD but now my L2/3 has a large central bulge and my sacroiliac joints are playing up as well.
My surgeon thinks it's time to consider the long fusion that we'd been trying to avoid, probably T6/8 to sacrum which may seem a bit strange considering I;m on the lower end end of the curve scale.
So has anyone here had a long fusion for a similar size curve and what were the results?
Cathy
Mine is thoracolumbar and is steady at roughly 35 degrees but is quite rotated and painful. Ive had L3/4 fused, a disc replacement at L4/5 and fusion at L5/S1 in 2 previous surgeries for DDD but now my L2/3 has a large central bulge and my sacroiliac joints are playing up as well.
My surgeon thinks it's time to consider the long fusion that we'd been trying to avoid, probably T6/8 to sacrum which may seem a bit strange considering I;m on the lower end end of the curve scale.
So has anyone here had a long fusion for a similar size curve and what were the results?
Cathy
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