Advancing Cervical Spine Care and Neuroprosthetics with Rory KJ Murphy, MD
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What is the background of Dr. Rory Murphy and his expertise?
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This is Carly Beam with the Becker Spine and Orthopedics Podcast, and I'm thrilled to be joined today by Dr. Rory Murphy, a spine surgeon with Barrel Neurological Institute. Dr. Murphy, thank you for being here today.
Thank you very much for the invite today, and thank you for setting this podcast up.
Absolutely. So before we dive into our questions, could you just introduce yourself and share a bit more about your background?
Yes. My name is Rory Murphy. I'm a neurosurgeon and I'm a neurosurgeon with the Barrow Brain and Spine Group. And I practice here in Phoenix, Arizona, being here for over eight years. And I did my Irish, did my medical school in Ireland, came over here, did my training in my residency in Wash U in St. Louis, fellowship in San Francisco, and then moved here. And yeah, uh here i do have a busy neurosurgical practice and i really one of my main areas i'm really interested in is helping people move especially after uh cervical injuries so cervical spinal cord injuries or helping people with degenerative cervical myelopathy and so um really working on different ways to help diagnose, treat, better surgical options for those conditions, and also better research opportunities and working with companies and setting up companies to try and commercialize and get solutions out into the real world to help people.
Absolutely. That's all very fascinating. And Dr. Murphy, I wanted to touch on something that you had mentioned in the conversation that we had earlier last year. I know there's been some interesting conversations about cervical disc replacement infusions around, especially at like three levels. And I want to hear your perspective on this debate and what you've been hearing from the spine community.
Yeah, and it's very topical. I had two or three people in clinic today and we discussed, they had three symptomatic areas with radiculopathy or myelopathy attributable to three levels. And we had a long discussion with people and some of the people today would have been one patient who's a neurologist and one patient who's an athlete. So we were going through the ins and outs and nuances and There's no exact right answer. I always discuss with people, try and match, find out what they hope to achieve and improve, then try and give them the options and potentially match their goals the best. Ultimately, disk replacement, arthroplasty versus fusion, currently the data says that they are about the same.
Mm-hmm.
We have prospective information and data from Norway and Sweden saying that there's no difference between them, that disc replacement is not better nor worse than a fusion. Similarly, a fusion is not better nor worse than a disc replacement. Other data from the US, especially industry-sponsored studies, suggest that disc replacements may have some benefits over fusions. 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, because I can imagine your patient who's a neurologist versus an athlete, they might have very different goals on what they want in their healing.
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.
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