Rory KJ Murphy, MD

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Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast · Advancing Cervical Spine Care and Neuroprosthetics with Rory KJ Murphy, MD · 2 Feb 2026 podcast

Ultimately, it's down to what a patient's goals are and probably what challenges a person is willing to deal with in the future.

Yeah, age, stage in life, their other medical challenges.

These are very important things to take into account.

This is a very topical conversation.

We're going to be debating this at the Spine Summit in a month's time here in Phoenix and Desert Ridge.

So myself and Dr. Alpesh Patel from Northwestern will be as part of the CSRS and WNS special courses.

We'll be debating the pros and cons of three level arthroplasty versus fusion.

And I've been nominated to be the proponent of three level arthroplasty.

So I'm going to go through the data, the most up to date data, gather information from the registries and data from industry sources on two versus three levels.

And Dr. Patel would do the same for three level fusions.

It will go through the different pros and cons of both.

So I think everyone agrees that there is a role for three level arthroplasty in some people.

There's three level fusions better than other people.

And we just have to try and match the best solution to the person.

Yeah.

So another I spent a long time with the insurance company this morning.

I have a 50 year old athletic dancer and she has a two level arthroplasty at four, five and five and six.

And she is developing symptoms and severe symptoms and radiculopathy C seven radiculopathy changes C 67.

So her preference after extensive discussion

is to have another arthroplasty because she did so well after the other two but her insurance will not approve uh or cover a third disc replacement or a third arthroplasty so i think there's a lot of information we need to get out there we need to

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