View Back Fusion Hardware Problems Pictures. These include failure to fuse and hardware problems. Most of the time there is no need to remove the metal and this avoids another surgery.
When the fusion is for back pain and/or spinal instability, there is a correlation (although weak) there can be other causes of failed spinal fusion such as the hardware coming loose or infection and poor 12/2013 failed fusion and broken hardware led to more surgery 4/1014 posterior hardware.
I would be very interested inhearing from others that more surgery leads to more opportunity for infection and problems. Donald corenman is among few spine surgeons with a chiropractic background. Back pain, spinal stenosis, and spondylosis. For the problem with the feet, hopefully, it will be temporary, but you might consider asking your doctor to prescribe something to help like topomax.