I am currently recoverying at Cleveland Clinic. I have several multiple levels of disc problems. I had C3-6 completed in 08, and work on T7-8 in 09. The T7-8 did not get much of the cord compression corrected. I came to cleveland to see what they could do. At first, they were not sure if they could get it. The went in an made the short turns to get in front of the spinal cord, behind the heart through the back. They cut out the part of the disc that was on the cord and put in a little amount of bone in its place. The other way to access this is to compress a lung, which is what my other drs wanted to do. I am glad Cleveland clinic could figure this one out. Looking forward to recovery.