The treatment of back pain is very unsatisfactory. There are hundreds of non-surgical treatments of back pain and the majority are worthless. When individuals run out of options, many resort to surgery. Sometimes, patients are pushed into surgery by unscrupulous orthopedic surgeons.
Surgery for back pain has been around for many decades. There are many types of procedures for back pain. In each and every case, the principle is the same--relieve pressure of the nerve. Over the years, back surgery has been refined, newer procedures have been devised and incisions have been made smaller.
Surgeons are always bragging about their success rates. Overall, surgery for back pain has been an abysmal failure. It is fraught with severe complications- the most important being that patients are generally in a worse shape than they started out. Almost every patient has a negative story about back pain surgery and testimonials on cyberspace all attest to the fact.
The types of surgery usually performed for back pain include fusion, discectomy, or laminectomy. It is the rare individual who gets a successful result after back surgery. Numbers released by surgeons are unreliable, and do not reflect the truth. Despite so-called successful surgery, many individuals continue to have either pain or have failure to improve mobility or posture. The exact number of patients who fail back surgery is not known because surgeons do not like to brag about their complications. Judging from cyberspace testimonials, the numbers are enormous.
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