An injury sustained on 'Dancing with the Stars' led Shannon Noll on a journey that would eventually result in him undergoing one of the most contested surgeries in modern medicine: spinal fusion for chronic low back pain.
Noll’s dancing partner leapt in the air. He caught her – and felt his back crack.Australian Idol
When Noll caught his partner, Elena Samodanova, the impact ruptured one of the discs in his spine, pushing the jelly-like filling out into the spinal canal and pinching the delicate spinal nerves.It’s real embarrassing,” says the now 44-year-old singer. “I woke up a couple days later and was in agony, I couldn’t move. I had never had pain like that before.”Given time, this injury – known as a prolapsed disc – generally heals by itself within a year.
“And the problem then becomes when they think they need another surgery, like fusion, to fix up the back pain. And that’s when you’re in a situation where the evidence is very unclear.”The operation removes a damaged disc and then fuses the vertebrae together.
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