Lumber spinal fusion options
By removal of the soft tissues between two adjacent vertebral bones and placing them with metal or bone is known as fusion surgery. The procedure of fusion surgery allows the bones to grow together with progression of time and it usually takes 6 to 12 months of the bones to fuse together. The fusion of bones helps in the elimination of motion and stabilization of bones at the spinal segments. The fusion at the lumbar spine involves the front, the back and the side. The implants modern techniques biologics and navigation enables the surgery to be more predictable. If there is a fracture degenerative disease, deformity, instability and stenosis then there would be need of lumber spinal fusion. The infection and tumors also go away with fusion surgery.