Effective Approaches to Pain Relief Without Surgery!
At Palm Beach Spine & Pain Institute, board-certified physicians are dedicated to stopping your pain. They specialize in performing innovative, minimally invasive techniques and procedures that eliminate pain at its source. The goal is to allow patients to return to a normal activity level — minus the pain. www.helpain.com
Back pain treatment in Arizona, the truth about the failure
www.arizonabackinstitute.com back pain and neck pain treatments in Arizona are failing just like the rest of the country. Sciatica, herniated discs, spinal stenosis and other conditions are causing much more dysfunction then they should or need to. Dr. Randall Pruitt discusses a real option to lower back pain and neck pain.
surgery is NOT the answer for back pain.
Surgery is NOT the answer for back pain. Orthopedists, through no fault of their own, are operating, literally, on a flawed premise. Successful surgery for low back pain is the exception and not the rule. They are selling people blue sky. And who would have surgery if their doctor sounded less than confident in the diagnosis? Do your own personal survey of those who have had surgery. Are they their old selves again? Look at chronic back pain blogs on the internet. Many people are having multiple procedures done to them, and continue to suffer immensely. Patients are so brainwashed into thinking a disc is pinching a nerve, the most minimal improvement is seen as success, and well, what more can you expect? You feel you are permanently flawed. Disc theory has been engrained in us for generations. I was raised on it, and used to believe in it myself. How else to explain radiating pain, or chronic pain that fails to resolve with conservative measures? Any radiating pain is given the catch all term "sciatica". It's automatic. It's how we're taught. I used to do it myself. It is not recognized that muscles can cause radiating pain, or nerve symptoms. As Dr Sarno has observed, there is no apparent spasm. And he's right, it is not apparent. If it's in the muscles, why doesn't massage work? What is being taught in massage schools does not work on tough cases, and in some situations makes people worse. Sometimes you can get away with what I consider over pressing forms of massage ...