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Anterior Cervical Discectomy with Fusion ACDF.
This was the surgery performed on my wife last month. A surgical entry was made from the front of her throat, avoiding damage to windpipe, arteries, and nerves. A degenerate disck was removed. Another surgical entry was made in her abdomen. From that, something was extracted and her stem cells were isolated. In the neck, a titanium cage shaped as a healthy disk and containing a bit of cadaver bone and sprinkled with her stem cells was inserted...

I've been quite open about my wife's experience with debilitating pain over the past 2 years.


It's over. She's well.


Several weeks ago a doctor took an X-Ray of her neck and declared that she had arthritis.
Shortly after that, I had her start taking Osteo Bi-Flex, an OTC glucosamine & chondroitin supplement. After about 4 weeks of that, she started feeling a little better. In the past 5 days, she gone from "A little better" to...