Steve, I'm glad to hear you are on the other side and hopefully well on your way to recovery and a pain free life.
Mark, you mention that you've seen to many "less than 1% problems". Regardless of surgeons, is your reference to ADR? Or surgeries in general?
I have read many posts from ADR surgeries and there are many success stories, there are also many less than optimal results. ADR surgeries can probably be measured in the hundreds to a few thousand. I have also read about poor fusion outcomes as well, not nearly as many as you would think, considering there are some 200,000 fusions a year.
I'm starting to believe that the FDA has a reason to slow roll things and insurance companies might have reason to require long term data.
Myself I have a fusion from 2002 and (2)ADR's from 2009. I can tell you that the fusion was a piece of cake. No problems and was back to full activity 6 weeks later. The ADR's where more of a challenge to recover from. Maybe it was surgical expertise or dum luck?
I appreciate your thoughts.
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