Spine surgery may be changing
You can save up to $6000 within two years if you forego the disc fusion offered by traditional surgery and instead get the doctor to implant an artificial vertebrae into your spine.
This is the good news for patients facing spine surgery and it has come out of the artificial disc manufacturing sector.
Researchers made this cliam by factoring in how much quicker you will get back to work if you take an artificial disc rather than opt for fusing two existing discs in your back.
With around 200,000 procedures performed in the US each year, to relieve the painful compression on the spinal cord or nerve roots, the preference of surgeons is clear. The most common of those operations was fusion of discs. And with good reason. This traditional operation, joining two or more vertebrae so the spine is strengthened and chronic neck pain is diminished, has a high success rate.
But with new artificial discs coming on the market, there is a case for looking at alternatives. Especially if you can get more quickly back to work and start paying for the surgery!