The SI Joint – It’s Smok’n

HD Version: www.youtube.com Information on the oddest Joints inf the human body. This is also what I suffer from. I live at a level 8 out of 10 on my good days. Today is about a 9. I’m left with SI Joint Fusion w/ bone graft surgery as my last medical option… Which I refuse to risk. It is way to risky. LINKS to information: www.umm.edu www.orthogate.org www.spine-health.com www.back.com www.orthopaedicsurgerynyc.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLQj1AMkEpI – here on YouTube SI Joint Fusion. KNOW THE RISKS. www.liebertonline.com neurotalk.psychcentral.com – Patient Forum www.med.nyu.edu www.medicinenet.com www.medscape.com SI Fusion is very high risk, and offers a small chance at resolution. Only a few I mean maybe 3 to 5 places in the US maybe the world provide this treatment. WHY IS THIS? About 85% of people who have it report more pain after. 99.99% of the time due to TIME alone as we age the fusion will fail. The pins/screws will bend and or break. In order to create BONE to BONE contact the amazingly protective cartlidge over the SI Joint surface must be removed. This can never be replaced and or made to regrow. As many people find out only after having the surgery reversed. COST for the Surgery is about to thousand not including cost of Consults, tests, xrays, and airfair and lodging to stay near the treatment center. For most people these places will be out of their medical insurance area of coverage. So check into what they will or won’t cover before making
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