PATIENT TESTIMONIAL
I’m a 77 year old retired physician. For 1 year I had severe sciatic pain radiating from my right lower back to my right lower leg. I couldn’t walk more than 50 feet before the pain became severe. Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik performed surgery at Doctors hospital in Coral Gables replacing all the disk in my lumbar spine because the degeneration was severe.Procedure was done in two stages.The surgery was very successful.My recovery each time was shorter than i expected.I am now able to walk my dogs up to 12 city blocks per day.I am very pleased with the care i received and feel that Dr. Brusovanik expertise and kind manor helped me to achieve the success i had.
Dr. Burton Silver, MD
Dermatologic Surgeon
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ABOUT Cervical Fusion
A classic cervical fusion is an operation that’s done to improve patients’ quality of life and lessen their pain, specifically in cases where a cervical disc, a disc in the neck has become degenerative in associated with other degenerative changes.
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In case of significant degenerative change, maintaining motion will result in continue pain in many cases, and a disc replacement, although a preferred operation in my hands, sometimes is not reasonable for a patient with end stage arthritis. A fusion can be done in that case, and the results are outstanding, but the newer way to do these fusions without cutting the neck muscles and using essentially Q-tips to gently get to the spine avoids the morbidity of the operation and also lessens the risk of such complications as a laryngeal nerve palsy, which may limit a patient’s ability to talk.
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