1.   According to Miller, the surgery he may face would be similar to the neck fusion surgery performed on Giants wide receiver Ike Hilliard last September.

2.   Except for a couple of teens who were having spinal fusion surgery and insisted on rock music, patients responded well to the music, she says.

3.   He underwent cervical fusion surgery on his neck in March and arthroscopic surgery to repair a partial tear of his left rotator cuff in June.

4.   In his second game that year, Hilliard sustained a serious neck injury that required fusion surgery and kept him sidelined for several months.

5.   Leave it to Mark Martin to describe the quality of his life before he underwent spinal fusion surgery last November.

6.   Sterling Sharpe is still working toward a comeback despite the neck fusion surgery he underwent a year ago.

7.   The only thing that could postpone his next vocation is a complete recovery from disc fusion surgery a year ago.

8.   The Red Sox recommended that he undergo fusion surgery, which would have involved removing a bone from his hip and fusing it with a bone in his neck.

9.   Two days after the injury, Taliaferro underwent spinal fusion surgery at the Ohio State Medical Center.

10.   Wide receiver Ike Hilliard returned to practice with the first-string offense Tuesday for the first time since his neck fusion surgery eight months ago.