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Old 08-31-2008, 11:28 PM
martyusa martyusa is offline
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Default A Word to the wise

After you have back surgery, Learn how to sneeze and cough a whole new way.

Leaning back a little bit, for me, saves me the sharp pain in my lower back and dropping to one knee after the surgery.
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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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