Lumbar fusion success stories

[Hooch]

Gday.

When you've used up all your options and you're ready to start considering lumbar fusion, it can be difficult to find success stories, but it's pretty damn easy to find horror stories. The bad outcomes are real, and should be heeded, but a lot of people I'm convinced have the surgery without even giving it much thought, and a lot of people pull up well. They never even consider posting on a message board.

'I was crook and the doc fixed me'. Some of them don't even know the risk they took, and who knows, maybe it's better for them that way! I've also noticed a lot of people will only post on a message board when they are having a problem or a pain spike, are in distress, then when things settle down they are never heard of again.

So as part of my research I made sure I found some success stories to plaster around the place to keep me going, here they are to balance the ledger a bit.

Realsurf.com • View topic - Spinal Fusion / Artificial Disk Replacement - Back Surgery

Spinal Fusion - CrossFit Discussion Board

Back surgery - CrossFit Discussion Board

CoolRunning Messageboards > Lower Back & Sciatic Pain (last post)

ADRSupport Community

ADRSupport Community

ADRSupport Community

If you have any more post them up, hopefully the next person desperately typing 'back pain' into google may be helped along the way a little.

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http://www.spinepatientsociety.org/f...-s1-plif-2470/

3 months post-op - a mostly positive story - ADRSupport Community

• View topic - BACK PAIN. NEED HELP!! 'hoodlum'

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Bad Backs :: Restrictions after L4/S1 Spinal Fusion?
Bad Backs :: Operation 3rd January - blog

Quite a few in there, that'll do me. A few horror stories too, but thems da breaks.

[Hooch]

• View topic - BACK PAIN. NEED HELP!! 'hoodlum'

whoops not a fusion, ignore.