Hi Doctor Corenman.
I have been in pretty bad pain for 7 months now with my TLIF (hardware only 1 side L5S1 with Peak cage). I heard and felt crunching in the area about 6 months into my recover. I have see a few doctors, including my surgeon, who said everything looks ok. One doctor said it is a un-robust fusion and another said it appears there is no fusion on the right side, a very small area on left side with thin bone with possible non-union. Anyway, it feels terrible and I have done conservative care now for 7.5 months. My question is what is the fix for this condition? Would the peak cage need to be extracted from the front, followed by ALIF and double sided screws and rods? I reached out in an email a while back.
Thank you.
