Jeff Langmaid reviews a 10-year clinical study involving hundreds of patients who underwent spinal fusion/fixation surgery performed without any decompression procedures (no laminotomy, laminectomy, foraminotomy, or discectomy). He frames the study around whether spinal instability causes degenerative changes or vice versa, and indicates the talk will extract practical lessons from the long-term results.
So a very long study, 10 years, hundreds of patients. And basically what they're looking at is when a patient has. So I'll say to my terms, they had patients go through fusion surgery, fixation surgery, without any decompression. That means without any laminotomy, laminectomy, foraminotomy, no discectomy, none of that. Just strictly the fusion to correct the instability. And they analyzed the results of that from that. Now you can reverse engineer. Well, how are these playing together? Is this instability that leads to degenerative changes? Is it degenerative changes that leads to an instability? And with that, I can tell you I learned a lot in this study, and I hope you learn a few things as well.
