Plaintiff alleged unnecessary spinal surgery employing twenty-two medical devices in an anterior-posterior
Plaintiff alleged unnecessary spinal surgery employing twenty-two medical devices in an anterior-posterior three-level fusion. Plaintiff’s experts, two orthopedic surgeons, were anticipated to testify that the surgery was unsupported by clinical findings, history and imaging, which indicated mild degenerative changes and mechanical back pain.
Following surgery, Plaintiff experienced numbness, decreased sensation, and chronic pain consistent with a failed back syndrome. As a result of motor and sensory dysfunction, Plaintiff was rendered permanently disabled