Cheryl, Just to clarify where Dr. Bierstedt practices, Hattingen, Germany is not far from Dusseldorf, the closest international airport. If you look on his website in detail, you'll see that. Have any surgeons in Europe come back to you yet with their recommendations? It sounds like you are doing the right thing, looking for the surgeon in Europe with the most experience in ADR. You probably know this already, but it seems that ADR at C2/C3 is almost never done in the U.S. because it is considered too close to the brain. Personally, from everything I have read and heard, it seems that we just don't have the best devices in the U.S. for that type of risky level.
Good luck with finding the right surgeon!!
Gene
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Car Accident 2002 - Small Herniated Disc C3/C4
1998 Larger Herniation and Cervical Fusion C3/C4
2005 Herniation C4/C5 - 40 epidural steroid injections from Oct 2005, - Oct, 2007
2008 - Foraminotomy at C6/C7 on left side
Feb, 2010 - Cervical Fusion C4/C5
Dec, 2010 - Lumbar Fusion L3/L5
2013 - Bulge on C5/C6; herniation C6/C7 right side
Mar 26, 2013 - Foraminotomy at C6/C7 on right side
May 5, 2015 - ADR with Dr Blumenthal of TBI for C5/C6 using Mobi-C
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