9 Years post ADR

jbcool35 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-31-2011, 09:29 PM

Glad to hear it worked out for you guys. You are a couple of that few percent that it does work on. Congrats!

mmglobal · #2 (**permalink**) 08-01-2011, 05:05 AM

I know hundreds of patients with ADR. It is a serious procedure and like all spine surgery, comes with substantial chance of failure. However, my experience with ADR compared to fusion is that success tends to mean more success than fusion, and that failure tends to mean less failure.

Yes... I know the horrible stories... I probably know more of them more intimately than anyone else in the world. But... for the most part, the stories are good. The successes far outweigh the failures.

To say that the successes here are the lucky ones 'of the few percent that it works on' is contrary to my experience. I've now handled more than 800 cases, and know many hundreds more cases that I have not worked on. Again, the good far outweighs the bad.

If I had to do it again, I would still do ADR instead of the alternatives.

Mark

jbcool35 · #3 (**permalink**) 08-01-2011, 06:54 AM

In my case I wouldn't have had surgery at all had I known what was to become of me after. Yes mine was a fusion and I completely agree that fusions are terrible! I was told that due to me having spondylolisthesis I couldn't have ADR. Don't know if that is true or not but I was way better before the surgery.