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Does lower back fusion surgery limit the mobility in your back can you still be flexible as you use to be?
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Yes: ? Re: lumbar fusion & post-op mobility. Certainly can limit & result in transfere of flexion forces to sacroiliac joints, SIJ, & repetitively stress them, over time, to pain & permanent loss of ligament integrity. Fusions oft incorporates patient's bone. Surgeons who fuse should avoid harvesting iliac crest bone because this procedure disrupts SIJ iliolumbar ligament; leading to same problems.
Answered 8/16/2015
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