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Why Non-surgical Treatment
The Southern California Spine Center specializes in the non-surgical treatment of low back injuries.
Most specifically we treat disc herniation, disc bulges, degenerative disc disease and leg pain like sciatica that originates in the spine.
As a result we have prevented hundreds of patients from going under the knife and ended their suffering without risk.
In fact, we increase the health of the spine as oppose to cutting it open and weakening the area. To hear from some of these patients go to our
Free DVD page and request a complimentary copy to listen to what they have to say!
In rare cases surgery is an appropriate treatment but that should be the exception as opposed to the rule.
To give you some idea of the epidemic that is low back surgery more than 500,000 patients undergo lumbar spine surgery each year. About 150 thousand of those surgeries are spinal fusions. Unfortunately, 50 percent of all surgical patients will fail to gain their desired outcome.
In fact, 10 percent of patients will be worse after the initial surgery.
The Center for Low Back Pain states, "The first axiom for anyone in the healing arts is to 'first do no harm'. Pain is NOT a reason to entertain surgery. . ."
Dr. Rosomoff M.D. was discussing "failed back surgery syndrome" of which there is a documented 50,000 cases, every year. While lecturing at the American Academy of Pain Mangement symposium,
it was his opinion that surgery should only be performed in 1 in every 500 low back cases. He felt that that would eliminate 99% of all surgical cases.
If you are considering surgery, you should have the following facts at hand:
Low back structures are physically close to one another, and because surgery in the lower spine is in itself stressful to the area, it can weaken and de-stabilize the area. Structures that have not been removed can become damaged or stressed as a result of the surgery and themselves become a new source for pain.
Surgery always results in the formation of some amount of scar tissue. If the scar tissue itself forms near any of the nerves, it too becomes an independent source for pressure and consequently for pain.
Since disc removal surgery inevitably takes place right near the afflicted nerves, there is a distinct possibility that the nerves themselves will be damaged during the procedure. If that happens, the nerve damage itself results in continued pain.
Low back surgery always requires the use of anesthesia and anesthesia itself is associated with a great number of medical risks including death.
All surgery, including low back surgery, is associated with infection risks. The risks begin preoperatively with the injection of anesthetics or other preparatory drugs and continue straight through the surgical procedure itself. The risk of infection remains throughout the postoperative recovery period whether that recovery occurs in hospital or out. If infection sets in, the infection itself can cause independent medical problems as well as become an independent source of pain.
Low back surgery requires significant recovery time. . . Time which many patients cannot afford to lose. Recovery time can be from 6 weeks for a laminectomy to 15 months for spinal fusion.
Many low back pain sufferers are not good candidates for surgery, either because they have medical conditions that raise the normal risks to intolerable levels, or because their particular sources of low back pain are not susceptible to relief via surgery.
Even if the surgery is successful in and of itself, and even if no procedure-related problem actually develops; there is the high probability that within 2 to 5 years, another surgery will be needed to fix the level(s) above or below the ones that were the target of the first surgery. The sheer force of normal weight and gravity on the spine during the course of everyday life will result in the development of new problems and thus, new sources of pain.
Once you go down this road of surgery you will increase the chance that you will need further surgeries in the future. Increased wear and tear on the disc above or below the sight of the original disc injury will occurr because of the weakening of the spinal structures. The surgery can tear into muscle and remove bone that destabilizes and promotes de-conditioning.
Case in point a gentleman suffering with severe low back pain came in who had been through 7 spinal surgeries. Unfortunately there was nothing that we could do at that point.
Surgery is appropriate only in a select few. It is the opinion of the Southern California Spine Center that all alternatives to surgery should be attempted first.
Please call for a consultation and let's find out if you are a candidate for our spinal decompression and rehabilitation program.
Surgery should always be your last choice.
619-692-0712
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Southern California Spine Center
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Nonsurgical Treatment of Severe & Chronic Lower Back Pain, Neck Pain, Leg Pain, Spine Pain, Herniated Discs, Ruptured Discs
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Mission Valley
9095 Rio San Diego Dr., Suite 155
San Diego, Ca 92108
619.692.0712
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