4 Things You Should Know Before Going Under the Knife

Deciding to have surgery is always a big decision; especially when your injury is more of an annoyance than painful.  The Chicago Tribune posted an article about the 4 things everyone should consider before “going under.”

1) Try other remedies first (like Physical Therapy). Don’t rush into surgery
2) Complicated diagnostics may not be necessary (take extensive patient history instead of rushing to get MRI/x-rays.)
3) Don’t have surgery unless you’re prepared to do rehab faithfully .
4) Minimally invasive is not always better (Go with what your doctor knows how to do best.)

To read the article, click here.

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Published on Aug 12, 2010
Author: RyanOrser
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Ryan,
Good considerations. In the last 12 years, there has been a 220% increase in spinal fusion surgeries despite a documented 20% failure rate for the first fusion. There is often a misconseption among healthcare consumers that surgery is the cure-all and many patients do not understand the success rates of the surgery or the plan of care following the surgery (immobilization–>physical therapy–>etc). Many times, non-invasive methods can take care of the disorder and have likely the same outcomes (ie. the recent literature on approaching care of ACL tears).

posted by Joseph Brence on 08.12.10 at 2:44 pm

Informative post Ryan, good work!

posted by Benjamin Gold on 08.15.10 at 7:44 pm

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