I'm skeered of cadaver fusion and another surgery right now.
I'd prefer the dope I confess.
For now....I just live with it. I have some Zanaflex....weak shite but it helps.
Alledgedly they have a new artifical (no dead people parts) disc replacement and then dremel off, per se, the bone spurs. I swim about an hour every day and it helps a whole lot. What kills me is walking on the concrete at the widget works......
I get a massage three times a week on top of the swim and ride my bicycle about an hour a day........ when the back is really hurting I hit the jacuzzi for a while. Works thus far but it's got to be fixed.......limiting my ability to play hard and live long IMHO.