ACDR VS ACDF - What you need to know

Your surgeon should offer you both options. Yes, they both can leave an ugly scar, Here is the Scar Removal from the video http://www.amazon.com/dp/B012EKYRX4

ACDR is the newest most promising surgery and stands for Artificial Cervical Disc Replacement.

ACDF is the traditional surgery and stands for Anterior Cervical Disc Fusion.

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hey everybody this is roll critical-care
nurse 22 years and counting and today
I'm going to talk about the pain in the
neck that's right that radiculopathy
that you have a radiates down your back
on your arms causes pain causes numbness
and tingling dropping of things
wake up like this right to sleep on one
side your hand crisis over its thinks
it's real painful and people just don't
understand right so you talk to your
doctor it's been months you've had your
MRI and your doctor comes back and says
you know what we got to operate the
surgical procedure they usually give you
two choices and if they don't if they
only give you one
be aware you surgically have two choices
in most cases when is the all-time
fusion have been doing this for 50 years
they've got it down packed extra gold
standard to repair it and now you've got
this up-and-coming new procedure where
they actually don't use it but they
actually do is to replace the disc to
talk briefly about both the pros and
cons okay let's talk about the gold
standard doctors know what they're doing
with that they've been doing it a long
time they know the risks they know the
instruments in all the procedures it is
effective and really compressing that
nerve that's causing the pain is
starting to annoy anterior approach
which is better
those are all the pros for it your
doctor does that chances are he's done
it all out already comfortable with it
that's the plus the downsize is it it's
a fusion especially if you're younger
you know you're in twenties thirties
forties and fifties and soul and sixties
you may really want to think about doing
a fusion because of the diffusion is
going to do it's going to they're going
to use with a bone graphical 22
vertebrates right and what that does is
it limits your mobility you're going to
lose a little mobility you're not going
to be a little stiffer making so you're
not going to be able to bend and turn
because you are but you're going to have
a limitation because that area of the
disk that was supposed to bend no longer
back
drawback number two twenty-five percent
with statistics a 25-percent of people
with had that procedure have some
equipment problems they have some
migrations of some of the equipment
stalls breakage of the screws things
like that so 25-percent one out of four
will generally me a second surgery
within 10 years before we generally need
a second surgery to go into stabilizing
take out equipment put in whatever but
that's the other downside to that ok
the pain afterwards is not bad it's
pretty well control
ok now the Youngblood the up-and-coming
up-and-coming is called an artificial
cervical disc replacement basically said
why are we using these balls just take
out the bad disk and replace it with an
artificial disc what that does is it
keeps the movement intact
alright because it's replacing a disk
it's not using so you can move its great
movement that's the biggest plus you
have for them
ok i'm doing in Europe for years and
years and years
ok 2007 that the finally approved here
and I've been in USA for cervical that
approved a little earlier for lumbar for
cervical so we don't have any long-term
studies and that yet that's one of the
downsides we don't have long-term
studies on it they started to officially
in 2007 as this recording its 2015 so we
don't have ten years but the predictions
have been that we're not going to have
that 25-percent failure factor in fact
looking at some of the studies from
Europe and some of the feedback from
Europe there had seen you in fact we're
running at you know eight years now and
we're not seeing that problem that you
see with the fusion so you will likely
need
second surgery the results are instant
have had a couple of friends who do it
and I mean they go in the morning crying
in pain and by the afternoon they wake
up and they think they're they have a
little incisional pain nothing bad but
their arm is perfectly fine now they go
from that same day
so what am I saying I'm saying you've
seen after four months and months and
months is painted the only you
understand that pain can't sleep just
there you even get tired of telling
people about it because you know you're
always in pain right then you go in pain
they put under Stephen when you wake up
it's going ok if you do get that kind of
really for the fusion too by the way I
want to be clear because as soon as they
be completely compressed matter whether
it's the replacement of the fusion
you're going to get relief now this
happens in a lot of the cases it doesn't
happen it all the cases because it
depends on how long it's been going on
and you know your doctor give you a
better idea because everyone is
different my true friends and a lot of
testimony you seeing you too will say it
was instant for them but there are
certain cases where it's not okay people
are doing it the same day same day
surgery going the morning by the
afternoon late afternoon go home
that's a big plus the less the hospital
say less complications work in a
hospital love it but I gotta tell you
you really don't want to be patient too
long
you just don't okay so that's another
plus for the sort of let me tell you a
little bit of value it's a frontal
approach they can go into the right or
the left and if you give you a choice
laughs that's usually the best
recommendation check with your doctor
I'm not your doctor check with your
doctor and the reason I i would do it
that way is because they have some
incidents of this page because of the
nerve when you go to the right which
means that the swallowing becomes a
little funny or affected afterwards you
know for the right if you get a little
dispute the left and it's not because of
the nervous just because all of a sudden
you have this which seems foreign
after a couple of days you don't notice
it for my friend did say that the first
a day or two felt a little funny but it
went away he went away in it worked for
him and he's extremely happy just like
so many other people that you see the
testimonies on the incisions only about
this big it's not huge but it's a very
sensitive area and it is very noticeable
so you want to take care of it just like
any scars pushing the neck is like a
facial scars very sensitive area
don't keep it out of the Sun cover it
fresh tissue will burn and also need a
dark line versus the surrounding area i
use a scar gel you something as silicon
base and here's the clincher you
something as vitamin c serum anything
for the face and for the neck
it has vitamin c serum it's just going
to heal that much faster okay i'll give
you a recommendation for them all right
usually if you have a procedure later in
the day by six o'clock three o'clock to
$TIME o'clock
sometimes the doctors will keep you
overnight afterwards and that's not a
bad idea
alright so take that most people if you
aren't don't have heavy work if you work
in an office can be back to work as
early as four weeks if you have more
manual labor to take much six weeks so
recovery time is pretty good not very
painful afterward they give you tylenol
not very bad somebody give you a little
stronger but usually you don't require
that much I depending on how long you've
had the painting physical therapy
afterwards place got a lot of positive
responses so you have the old school
which is the fusion which they know how
to do they've been doing forever
ok the downside is twenty-five percent
chance that in the next 10 years you're
going to have to go back and you're
going to do some ugly
ok you have the disk artificial disc
replacement and really the be the only
downside compared to the other procedure
is that we don't have long-term studies
we don't have to use yet right 2007 as
this according to 2015 so it's not quite
10 years and here's the other thing when
you're choosing an actor
i will try to get someone who's been
doing it for at least $MONEY over three
years preferably five years and it's not
that they don't know what they're doing
they understand the concept is pretty
clear that they use special
instrumentation and if they haven't had
quite the practice with it then you know
they may want you may want someone who's
been doing a lot so that's one of the
drawbacks is make sure that surgeon that
you do use has been doing it for a while
okay
better than that that's how it goes
alright i made this video a little
longer than usual if you have any
questions or comments feel free and this
is role as always hope i helped