[steve55]

Hope Mark catches this post so I can get his input also. Im 7 months out from my 3 level ADR conversion to fusion at C4-C7. I was pain free for 4 months and then for the last 2 months, I started getting tenderness, soreness, and even some degre of nerve pain at what I thought was my C6/7. My medical massage therapist says the spots I am pointing out to her as being sore are t2 and t3. She is not a standard massage person, she is medically trained and knows the anatomy and was actually referred by the doctor, so Im sure she is correct. So, my thoughts are that the fusion is stressing my thoracic now? Its weird that T1 is not sore. Anyways, sounds like REALLY bad news if I am already suffering adjacent level stress. is this normal after a fusion and will just go away? Im not sure what this means or doesnt mean. Anyone else have this effect and ended up ok. My physical therapist says everyone has pain somewhere in some form or fashion usually up to a year after fusion, so my complaints are not abnormal. Im just wondering if my thoracic is going to blow now. If it does, maybe I get try the ADR again to stop the cascading. I know mark has thoracis ADR;s, Im wondering if thoracic is hard for the surgeons to do ADR on? . I know bertagnoli does the thoracic, but I thought I heard many surgeoins are unable due to hard to reach.

Thoughts?

PS- My range of motion is unnoticeably restricted, I can go far right and far left same as before I think, and almost as far up and down. My Doc says its impressive I can do what i can do after a 3 level