Back Surgery in your 30s?

Lindagaf
Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:25:26 +0000

For anyone interested, The Economist, a highly respected weekly magazine, recently published an interesting article on back surgery. In a nutshell, it is not very effective at all. There is a lot of evidence supporting the findings. The vast majority of people who have had it don’t need it.

In short, the article said that there are noninvasive approaches to chronic back pain that are proving much more effective at helping to alleviate symptoms. It appears that the brain isn’t “switching off” pain signals, and so it needs to be reprogrammed.

I can’t link the article, as we get The Economist on paper, but I know some newspapers have published the findings reported in The Economist.