This is for you medical types but anyone with experience/opinions is invited to speakout. I need to have a vertebra fused at L5/L6 due to arthritic degeneration. Neurosurgeon says 3 months to recuperate. Assumbing a normal recovery are there any substantial decompression risks to be concerned about? I am aware that any traumatized area is more suseptabe to DCS. This brings the question. How much more risk? I use computer generated dive tabes with a bottom timer, deep stops, nitrox 50/50 deco gase ,plus 02 @ 20' when needed and tri-mix if I want it. My run times do not to exceed 90 minutes and my maximum depth will not exceed 150' regardless of mix.
Thanks ,
Mike
Thanks ,
Mike