Patients often ask me how they’re going to do long-term after their spine surgery. Sometimes we know and sometimes we don’t know. We just don’t have a lot of data on patients 10, 20, 30 years after surgery. The goal certainly is to give somebody back their quality of life in a tailored fashion. That’s nuanced and requires input of thought on the surgeon to do the minimum surgical intervention to get them where they need to be and, and minimize at the same time, the risk for future surgery.
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