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Saw my pain mgmt. dr. today, before seeing my rep. for my tweaking, and he informed me that he'll be presenting my surgery case at the national Neuromodulation conference in December. Evidently he's the first dr. to put all four leads (two for cervical and two for lumbar)into one incision area (lumbar), rather than making two separate incisions (lumbar and cervical).

He said he decided to try putting the two cervical leads in first, and was able to thread them up C4-5 and was able to anchor them in. He then threaded my two lumbar leads and anchored them to around T-8. He showed me photos he took during the surgery...was rather weird to see myself laying there, cut open and having leads being placed in me, but really drove home the point of how skilled one's surgeon needs to be