Just my advice
If you are at all active, which I imagine from reading your post that you are!... Do not get the Prodisc at C5/C6. I was told by hopkins a year after my failed prodisc at c5/c6 that the a fusion works 98% of the time at that level if you only have that 1 diseased disc. The initial surgeon decided to get cute and make a few extra bucks and put the prodisc in @ c5/c6. Ever since the intial surgery my life has been hell. Once it failed, I was a mess and it wasn't long before the surgeon stopped returning my phone calls and wouldn't take any from me. A revision (by hopkins) was tried to correct it a year later with no success.
Unless you can get an M6, I would recommend just doing the fusion and taking it easy. NO PRODisc my friend.
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Ruptured C5/C6 June 2010. Rushed into Prodisc surgery July 1, 2010. Month after installation, symptoms came back and new more intense pain. Fought all year for help. July 6, 2011 received fusion-revision on top of Prodisc - John's Hopkins. Numbness went away in hands, but pain still remains. Doctor's all say "Life of Pain Management" forever. Trying to endure life through the fog of pain and meds and procedures. New hope is now Neurotransmitter "TENS" unit implanted into neck at C5/C6.
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