Prices in Germany are normally 75% below the cost for a lumbar fusion treatment in the US and are individually quoted. They include all medical expenses, the hospital stay, surgeon's fees, operation room fees, anesthesia, anesthesiologist's fees, medicine, nursing, semi-private room, meals, pre-op diagnosis, local phone and English TV.
Lumbar Fusion: What is it?
A spinal fusion surgery is designed to stop the motion at a painful vertebral segment, which in turn should decrease pain generated from the joint. All lumbar spinal fusion surgery involves adding bone graft to an area of the spine to set up a biological response that causes the bone graft to grow between the two vertebral elements and thereby stop the motion at that segment.
Lumbar Fusion: What is it needed?
For patients with the following conditions, abnormal and excessive motion at a vertebral segment may result in pain:
- degenerative disc disease
- Isthmic, degenerative or postlaminectomy spondylolisthesis.
Other conditions that may be treated by a spinal fusion surgery include a weak or unstable spine (caused by infections or tumors), fractures, scoliosis or deformity.