you really need to have your doc(s) go over your MRI personally... i really don't know what "disc osteophyte complex" is - could mean that it has auto-fused? you want to know if they think it will degenerate more.
it SEEMS to me that older people (say, over 45-50, more degeneration/stenosis present) do better with fusion - my own uncle is an ortho surgeon (not spine) and he had a 2 level fusion.... never even considered ADR seriously. he was late 50's at the time. but i am NOT a surgeon and nowhere near as knowledgeable about degenerative or disc matters of the cervical spine as i am the lumbar... all of my lumbar knowledge is from my own learning, about my own condition. i don't do chronic pain/disc stuff in my field of speciality.
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