In 1965-66, his career was nearly derailed when he went through a second spinal fusion operation.

"I'm actually in worse pain now than before the fusion operation," she told me.

Yet there is no compelling clinical data showing that the fusion operation works better than simple disc excision.

In the absence of better data, critics in the field point to a different reason for the fusion operation's fast rise: money.

Doctors and hospitals are not the only players with a financial stake in fusion operations.

This is an important assumption for the fusion operation.

We will be in a position to endorse candidates as a fusion operation.

I'm offering you a share of the fusion operation.

More than 100,000 cervical fusion operations are performed in the United States each year.