An ADR is artificial disc replacement. Your own disc is literally removed surgically and a metal one is put in it's place. Though there are now several choices in design, keel and core, this decision will permantly alter your spine for the rest of your life, but then again, so do discectomies.
This is an education and perhaps something you might want to explore should your second surgery fail, but don't cross that bridge until you have too.
Please make sure that whatever exercise regimen you choose, the instructor is well informed about back injuries/surgeries.
Hindsight is 20/20 vision. I wish now that I never had my first two surgeries but can't tell you if I would or wouldn't have made the same decision. Deciding on adr surgery is not something you enter into lightly.
Best of luck to you, Dale
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3 level Prodisc adr S1-L3, Oct 12, 2005
Dr. B in Bogen, Germany
Severe nerve damage in left leg, still working on it
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