Back surgery can be a solution to treat pain, but it’s not often or not always the answer. If you look at the evidence, a lot of pain can be treated with minimally invasive procedures including injections and many other procedures that we can do, but sometimes surgery is the final and only option. I…
I think the best answer to that is, no, you don’t have to suffer from pain for the rest of your life, but being that pain is a perception. There are ways to work on how pain is perceived in order to improve quality of life, be it with medications, being with interventions, be it…
The acute pain is a little different from chronic pain; Acute pain is an evolutionary response of the body. It’s a way of your body saying, “Hey something is wrong, you need to fix it” it’s like the flight or fight mechanism. You put your hand on fire, you remove your hand from the fire.…