Surgical Treatments

The good news about surgical treatments for back pain is two fold:

• Less than 1 percent of those who suffer from back pain ever need it.
• Medical advances have made back surgery easier to tolerate and recover from, with more optimistic prospects for recovery than ever before.

At present, many experts agree that more back surgery than was medically necessary was performed in the past, with too many of the recipients not benefiting from it. Some even became worse as a result. Today the standard for back surgery is that an individual has a clearly defined medical condition with a specific solution that will provide clear benefits.

Below we will look at the three most common types of back surgery: disc surgery, spine stabilization and creating additional space in the spine.