Good evening Dr Corenman,
I have a question again, over the past couple of years I’ve been having at times severe base of neck pain, and muscle spasms, etc. We spoke about this in the past. Last month I meet with my neurologist and he wasn’t too happy with my issues and referred me to an orthopedic spine surgeon. After 90 minutes of going over my history, physical assessment, surgical notes and scans he mentioned that my surgery from 2017 never healed, said there’s movement.
My 2017 procedure extended posterior fusion from C7 to T2, Revision of cervical laminectomy with foraminctomies, medial facetecomies C5-C7 and segmental instrumentations C4-T2. I was shocked and asked how was this possible since my neurosurgeon stated in 2018 that my fusion was solid when he removed hardware. The orthopedic spine surgeon said looking at CT scan from April 2020 you have movement, and psuedorthosis, and that he has over 25 years looking at this stuff and he’s 100% percent sure. So he referred me to another surgeon since this area may need to be broken and reset. I have an appointment in a couple of weeks, any suggestions on the complexity of a C7 , T1 and T2 none union correction and is this an issue that an orthopedic surgeon is better equipped to address? Thanks in advance
