Adjacent Level Disease
Adjacent Level Disease What is it Mobile spinal levels surrounding a spinal fusion see additional stresses when motion is restricted across the fusion While it has not been proven this additional stress is felt to contribute to a higher incidence of degeneration of adjacent segments which could result in symptoms and the need for additional surgery in the future This is known as adjacent segment disease The stress seen by an adjacent level and risk of adjacent segment disease is felt to be progressively higher with more and more levels stiffened by fusion Therefore it is thought that multilevel spinal fusions may have a higher risk of adjacent segment disease than single level fusions
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