Hanging Tough: Lumbar Disc Replacement Over Fusion

Published: July 5, 2017, 3:56 p.m.

Jack Zigler keeps tracking his ProDisc patients, now 12 years post FDA approval. Just as he found at 3 years, 5 years and 7 years post approval, LADR is superior to fusion.\xa0 And cheaper.\xa0 Yet, on May 1, 2017 United Healthcare cited no long term data to label LADR \u201cunproven.\u201d Such a monumental mistake.\xa0 Read on.