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What type of surgery do they do to correct a disc bulge at c6 and c7?
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∙ 12y ago
First of all, I wouldn't have surgery for a disk bulge unless I were in severe pain for a long time and other therapeutic options (chiropractic, physiotherapy, etc) have not worked, or, if there were severe neurological symptoms that were either not improving with therapy or were getting worse. If all these things were the case, then there are a few options for surgery, dependent on the surgeon, the disk, the patients wishes, the country/region, etc. Some possibilities are:
1) remove the extrudate (material exiting the disk if it were a true herniation), or shave off some off the bulge with microsurgery
2) remove the disk and fuse the C6 and C7 vertebrae together forever
3) remove the disk and replace it with an artificial disk
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