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Arthrodesis is a surgery that can treat severe joint pain, injuries, and other symptoms that significantly affect quality of life. Doctors typically recommend it if nonsurgical treatments like ...

Arthrodesis is a surgical procedure used to permanently immobilize a joint. Arthroplasty is joint replacement surgery. A joint can be replaced either in whole or in part. A variety of diseases or ...

The recommended methods of achieving fixation for a knee arthrodesis following a failed knee replacement include external fixation or internal fixation using an intramedullary nail or plate. This ...

If you have severe arthritis pain, your doctor may suggest that you have joint fusion surgery (also called “arthrodesis”). This procedure fuses, or “welds,” together the two bones that ...

Results of subtalar arthrodesis for subtalar arthrosis have been mixed. Gallie [] demonstrated a technique for in situ fusion of the subtalar joint. Harris [] then applied this technique to acute ...

First metatarsophalangeal arthrodesis procedures are a common surgical intervention used to treat pain associated at the first metatarsophalangeal joint associated with degenerative changes.

• Also know as a PEEK cage. These cage(s) are used for an interbody arthrodesis because they are placed within the disc space and reported once per level regardless of the number of cages at one level ...

22551 – Arthrodesis, anterior interbody, including disc space preparation, discectomy, osteophytectomy and decompression of spinal cord and/or nerve roots; cervical below C2. This CPT code combines ...