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Originally Posted by cyrilwood
Need recommendation from anyone who has experienced Spinal Stenosis corrective surgery.
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Assuming you have a recent MRI you well need the disk. See a couple of Neurosurgeons so you can compare what they recommend.
I have had 3 spinal surgeries. My spouse one, just this past week.
Depending what they see in your MRI, you likely will be told that Physical Therapy will likely be tired first, secondly a pain management program or both, will be done doing various shots, then surgery when PT and pain management no longer is effective.
This is serious business. My last surgery was a lumbar fusion (March, 2021 and I still have pain); prior to that was a laminectomy (7 years ago).
I am playing golf 3 times a week had to move up to the green tees and have difficulty putting a tee in the ground and don’t always play all 18 holes.
Laminectomy was spinal stenosis correction with knowledge I would eventually need a fusion due to potential disk rupture. When the disks finally failed (7 years later) within a week I was using a walker to see my neurosurgeon.
I used a surgeon out of Ocala and personally would not recommend him, not for him put rather his PA and staff. I saw 3 nureo’s all recommended lumbar fusion as the only recourse. My wife used Dr Oliver and she had a cyst that caused the disk failure.
If I had it to do over again I probably would have opted to go to Mayo in Jacksonville.
Good luck to you. But get multiple opinions from Neurosurgeons, never a Orthopetic surgeon.