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09-10-2010, 04:31 PM
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Maria, I just looked back at the pictures from the Dr. Yeung seminar I put together (it was june 2004.)
GPN Events - Dr. Yeung Do you remember the way you used to sit? It is great to see you doing so much better. Gil, I like Dr. Yeung (both of them) very much and believe in what they do. If I could go back and redo my discectomies, I'd probably go to them. However, their SED procedure is an effort to salvage discs and avoid bigger surgeries. It can be VERY effective in less degenerated systems that have salvageable discs. In severely degenerated systems, discectomies come with poor success rates. (Not zero, not nearly as good as in less denerated systems.) Let us know what they say. All the best, Mark
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09-10-2010, 10:50 PM
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Key is in having and SED before any other surgery.
If SED is performed on already damaged and operated disc, success rate falls.
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09-11-2010, 01:34 AM
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Roberto, Dr. Yeung has spent an amazing amount of effort to crunch all the numbers to help him determine how to improve the procedure. He has told me that he actually gets slightly better results on recurrent herniations (already discectomied). He says that he can't explain it, but the numbers bear this out.
It's nice to hear him talk about the development of the procedure. For years, he would review the tapes of surgeries for patients that did not have success, looking for something that he might learn from or improve. He's very passionate about it. The changes in his procedure through the years and the improvements in the scopes, RF and Laser systems have been significant. Mark
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1997 MVA 2000 L4-5 Microdiscectomy/laminotomy 2001 L5-S1 Micro-d/lami 2002 L4-S1 Charite' ADR - SUCCESS! 2009 C3-C4, C5-C6-C7, T1-T2 ProDisc-C Nova Summer 2009, more bad thoracic discs! Life After Surgery Website President: Global Patient Network, Inc. Founder: www.iSpine.org
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09-11-2010, 01:28 PM
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re the way I sit
I can sit more easily now definately however there are times I still sit like that if I'm in pain or just trying to avoid directly sitting on tail end.
Yeah.. that does bring back alot of memories. Guess L5S1 is much more stable now than it used to be tho there is still pain at the L4 level but I don't think this level is as bad as the L5S1 level was or perhaps the two levels being problematic at the same time was just "too much."
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