Artificial disc a viable alternative to fusion for 2-level disc disease
Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 05:00
in Health & Medicine
When two adjacent discs in the low back wear out, become compressed and cause unmanageable pain, numbness or other symptoms, replacement with artificial discs can be a viable alternative to standard fusion surgery, based on two-year post-surgery data from a randomized, multicenter trial recently published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.