Restorative motion surgery is a procedure whereby a surgeon removes a previous spinal fusion and replaces it with an artificial disc. This is a relatively new treatment methodology based on the enormous success of artificial disc replacement surgeries. Patients who meet the clinical criteria for restorative motion surgery are waking up from their surgery with the full, natural range of motion of their neck.
Excitement over the success of ADR caused many surgeons and patients to wonder how we might use it to restore movement and eliminate fusions. The procedure is being performed today under an off-label provision of the FDA approval for cervical artificial disc replacement surgery. What this means is that surgeons, such as myself, have permission to tailor a treatment program based on the unique needs of a patient.
Patients who undergo this procedure see a very similar postoperative recovery. They can walk out of the surgical center, many of them without an overnight stay in a hospital, and within 3 months, they’re healed.
