need help for wife

[lyden]

My wife has DDD in L4-L5 and L5-S1, she has been threw all of the non-surgical stuff (injections,therapy,accupuncture,etc) and now we are at the point of needing surgery. We have been to a local Neuro.Surgian who wants to do ALIF at L5-S1 with the possibiilty of having to do minimal type fusion at L4-L5 later on down the road. We went to Ortheopedic who wants to do disc replacement at L5-S1, we like what the disc replacement has to offer just not real sure about the Dr. not having that much experience.

We have been doing some reasearch here lately on the internet about Dr.'s in Germany, but it seems that all the posts we have been reading are all a year or more old. We were wondering if some of these Dr.'s are still practicing and if so which one is the best at doing lumbar disc replacement, any and all advice and help is greatly appreciated.