Sentence examples for fusion operations from inspiring English sources

Decreased bone density is an independent risk factor for instrumentation failure in spinal fusion operations.

The horse had been suffering from arthritis the past two years and underwent two delicate spinal fusion operations, the most recent of which was last month.

The collaborative recommends bundled payments and warranties for five types of surgery: total knee and total hip replacements, lumbar fusion operations, coronary artery bypass and bariatric surgery.

Doctors are free to use an approved product in any way they choose, and many surgeons began using Infuse for other types of spinal fusion operations.

[A16.] F.D.A. Backs Bone Growth Device The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of electrical stimulation of bone growth to improve the success rate of spinal fusion operations in the neck.

For patients, the system of benefits also favors the trend toward surgery: they generally receive greater disability payments if they undergo back surgery, and higher benefits are paid for fusion operations than for discectomies.

He invented the Bilateral/Lateral Spinal Fusion operation and instruments and Injection Therapy procedure.

"I'm actually in worse pain now than before the fusion operation," she told me.

Yet there is no compelling clinical data showing that the fusion operation works better than simple disc excision.

After other procedures failed to provide relief, Wadkins had a six-and-a-half-hour double fusion operation in 1999 at the Texas Back Institute, where Woods had his 90-minute fusion surgery.

Mr. Perks, who became the town's harbormaster in 1981, was injured on the job in 1993 while repairing a bulkhead in Northport during a northeaster; he underwent a spinal fusion operation so he could return to work.