Little touchy aren' t you Rookie? Wasn' t trying to bust your cajones. i' m just trying to make sure Thunder gets accurate information.
" SpineCATH IDET therapy is a minimally invasive treatment in which the physician applies controlled levels of thermal energy (heat) to a broad section of the affected disc wall. This heat contracts and thickens the collagen of the disc wall. Therapy may result in contraction or closure of the disc wall fissures and a reduction in the bulge of the inner disk material'
http://backandneck.about.com/gi/dyna...ents_idet.html
That' s what a meant by cooking and making it hard. The way my surgeon explained it was the whites of an egg, when it' s cooked .
From websters
an insoluble fibrous protein that occurs in vertebrates as the chief constituent of connective tissue fibrils and in bones and yields gelatin and glue on prolonged heating with water
What would you call it when you heat some thing to 194 degrees and it thickens ?
Never claimed to be a surgeon. I did however sleep at a holiday Inn express last night.
