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Article: Experimental Prosthetic Disc May Be Alternative To Fusion Surgery.(Brief Article)
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- Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week
- Article date:
- July 8, 2001
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2001 JUL 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
If there is one back-surgery patient who can put a new, experimental artificial disc to the test, his name is Karl Nusch, and there is a good chance he's walking, biking, or swimming somewhere near his Redondo Beach, California, home.
Nusch, 41, who loves to compete in triathlons, jumped at the chance to have a prosthetic disc placed between two vertebrae in his low back. The hour and a half operation took place on March 23, 2001, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Institute for Spinal Disorders, one of 10 centers in the U.S. participating in a study of 300 patients.
While patients who undergo fusion ...