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Spinal fusion
The surgical joining of two or more vertebra into one larger block of nonmoveable bone usually involes striping muscles scraping cartilage off joints and moving bone from hip to pack around spine internal frame built withscrews and rods often used todaythe goal is to stop painful intervertebral motion or progressive deformity choose a better spinal shape.
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