watched The Doctors today...they showed disc replacement that moves...
for ONLY disc replacement...no scoli involved...
the replacement part moves...it has 2 parts that fit together
and they pivot...so the body can move after the disc replacement
part is inserted during surgery....this particular patient had
replacement of a disc in neck....at C5-6 disc
when will something like this be able to be used for scoli surgery?
the surgeon...from SF Spine Center...Dr Kenneth Light...
said it means the body will be mobile, because humans "are
supposed to be mobile...we are supposed to move and
the SPINE is supposed to move"
he mentioned the "old way" of fusing the discs...
said this new way is better because it preserves movement and
bending...called old way of fusing "archaic"
this is not an attack on fusion...thsi is a question about the future
of scoli surgery...
it makes so much sense...
the surgeons tell me the spine wouldn't have enough support
if rods could bend...but maybe it won't be rods...maybe it will
be small little rod pieces interspersed with pivot pieces...
someday...????
jess
for ONLY disc replacement...no scoli involved...
the replacement part moves...it has 2 parts that fit together
and they pivot...so the body can move after the disc replacement
part is inserted during surgery....this particular patient had
replacement of a disc in neck....at C5-6 disc
when will something like this be able to be used for scoli surgery?
the surgeon...from SF Spine Center...Dr Kenneth Light...
said it means the body will be mobile, because humans "are
supposed to be mobile...we are supposed to move and
the SPINE is supposed to move"
he mentioned the "old way" of fusing the discs...
said this new way is better because it preserves movement and
bending...called old way of fusing "archaic"
this is not an attack on fusion...thsi is a question about the future
of scoli surgery...
it makes so much sense...
the surgeons tell me the spine wouldn't have enough support
if rods could bend...but maybe it won't be rods...maybe it will
be small little rod pieces interspersed with pivot pieces...
someday...????
jess
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