Thanks for the update, Mark. I passed this onto my Wifes employer @ the hospital. According to her, they do not prescribe this all that often. But, knowledge is power.
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Martial arts for 25 years
Full contact MMA 7 years
Body building last 7 years
(no Problems)
4-07 Fall down step holding daughter
5-07 L5-S1 buldge MRI
9-07 L5-S1 herniation W/DDD and annular tear MRI
3 epidurals / 2 nerve root injection / 6 weeks of PT
8/01/2008 L4-S1 Posterior Spinal fusion only, using the PEEK ROD system. No Vertebral spacer and disc is still there. So is the pain!!!!
4 More weeks of PT and things are worse now than before.
I must train again.
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