Lumbar spinal fusion surgery is designed to stop the motion at a painful vertebral segment, which in turn should decrease pain generated from the joint. There are many approaches to lumbar spinal fusion surgery, and all involve the following process: - Adding bone graft to a segment of the spine - Set up a biological response that causes the bone graft to grow between the two vertebral elements to create a bone fusion - The boney fusion - which results in one fixed bone replacing a mobile joint - stops the motion at that joint segment A... read full review »