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A member asked:
I have degenrative spine l345 s1 i can't move at the end of the day, i'm 40 the pain is there every min of the day! would a fusion help?
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Unlikely: Fusion for spine arthritis results are highly unpredictable. Spine degeneration is ubiquitous beyond the middle ages and there is no way to reliably determine in whom it is wholly responsible for lbp. There are countless other potential causes, contributing factors, and treatments. Doing a fusion without definitively isolated clinically significant pathology is analogous to "shooting blindly.".
Answered 5/28/2017
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