I've been the happy owner of a Prodisc at C5-6 for just short of one year. Adding a naproxen tablet to the morning vitamins is an easy way to help prevent HO.
I'm not 100% pain free and probably never will be as the original nerve damage is 14 years old, but the ADR made an immediate improvement in pain level and neurological function. The radiculopathy was such that I couldn't keep my arm down. It was perpetually cocked up as if I was about to shake hands with someone.
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April '98 - Injured @ work
Oct '98 - Declared "permanent and stationary" by workers' comp docs
10 years of PT and chiropractic...
Oct '08 - Sudden incapacitating lumbar / sciatic pain with foot drop
April '09 - L5-S1 microdiscectomy fixes foot drop and most of the pain
May '11 Hey doc, I'm tired of my neck hurting...
Dec '11 - C5-6 Prodisc-C
July '12 - Neck is still doing well. L5-S1 is "done" - bone on bone
July '13 - L4-L5-S1 TLIF
Aug '13 - C7-T1 microdiskectomy
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