In a prior blog, the recent FDA-approval of the Bryan Cervical Disc ™ was announced. One of the advantages of this device and cervical arthroplasty, as a spine surgical treatment for degenerative disc disease, is that patients can return to work and their normal activities in a relatively short period of time. Generally, this time period is quicker when compared to a spinal fusion – which is the current standard spine surgical treatment to this newer procedure and technology. At this time, spinal fusion is the standard surgical treatment.
A study recently published in Neurosurgery, concluded that patients that underwent cervical arthroplasty returned to work on average about three months sooner than those patients that underwent a spinal fusion and cervical discectomy. The patients who received the cervical artificial disc returned to work in a median time frame of 101 days following their spine surgery (cervical arthroplasty) as compared to 222 days in the group that underwent the spinal fusion and cervical discectomy.
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