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A fusion surgery involves employing a bone graft to prevent the motion at a painful vertebral segment, which successively should decrease pain generated from the joint. Spine surgery instrumentation (medical devices), bone graft procedures, and a bone stimulator are sometimes used along side fusion . There also are many surgical approaches to performing fusion , like ALIF, PLIF, XLIF, TLIF, posterolateral gutter fusion, anterior/posterior fusion, and certain minimally invasive approaches.

In addition to the above conditions, decompression and/or fusion could also be performed to deal with other sorts of lumbar spine pathologies, like infection or tumors. It should be known that while fusion has been a classical treatment for ongoing pain and disability from the lumbar spine, alternatives to fusion do exist for posterior conditions (problems within the back of the lumbar spine) like spinal stenosis. Inserting an interspinous process spacer, like the X-STOP device, can actually preserve motion as against stopping it via fusion.

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