Thursday, December 4, 2008

Back Surgery?

I came across this video on Fox News.

This is good information. Reading a little more, this sounds pretty good. One of the problems I see with people who have had back surgery is that there is often significant damage to the surrounding tissues that continue to cause pain, or actually cause a more intense pain. As we can decrease the damage and inflammation at the location of the procedure, we are more likely to recover faster as did these people in the video.

Unfortunately, still many people have surgery before going through the proper steps. Many will not believe that it is relatively normal to have intense back pain for several days. Keep in mind that when you are dealing with progressive neurological deficit is when you traditionally should consider surgery. There are other reasons, but typically those are the types of conditions that will require the operation.

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