My new neurosurgeon is familiar with this types of treatments.
He honestly told me:
"I would never implement this to someone my" ... Honestly said, its still risky and not valuated.
We need to wait more time, that is why doctors are still studying long term results of this process.
Replacement of nucleus is not new procedure, for long period of time scientists are trying to proove that with nucleus replacement pain would go away, because for a long time there was a theory that main reason of pain in the back is disorder in spine biomechanics, caused by disk degradation.
But, recent researches prooved that sterile inflammation caused by chemicall reaction of nucelus and annulus causes irritation of sinu-vertebral nerve, and this casuses 80% of back pain.
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