Artificial Discs

A new option that is currently undergoing clinical trials involves replacing the problem disc with an artificial prosthetic disc. It is currently too early to tell if these will be successful; but they apparently hold promise. They have been used in Europe for a number of years and should be generating some valid statistics soon. I would recommend making a thorough search of the complications and long term results before agreeing to this therapy. If it turns out that it is a very successful modality, then it would probably rank as the ideal surgical approach. In this choice, if it fails, you can always resort to the surgical fusion. However, if you have the surgical fusion, it is probably unlikely that a prosthetic disc would be able to be inserted afterwards since the bones have been so altered by fusion.

Further Reading

Introduction
TENS (Transcutaneous Electrucal Nerve Stimulation)
Ice and Heat
Acupuncture
Trigger Point Point Injections
Epidural Steroid / Aneshetic Injections
Chemonucleolysis
Surgery
Percutaneous Diskectomy
Microdiskectomy
Laminectomy
Artificial Discs
Fusion

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