Not only is the cost of the program less, but our treatment effectiveness has improved considerably since we added Physical Therapy to our program. While Spinal Decompression treats the damaged disc and the source of the pain, Physical Therapy focuses on the mechanical and postural issues that caused the disc injury in the first place. By treating the cause the patient responds better, faster and is less likely to experience a future relapse!

thanks for the great quality of your blog, every time i come here, i’m amazed.

Here’s the link to the article on this Orange County Spinal Decompression Blog:

http://spinaldecompression-orangecounty.com/2009/10/17/back-surgery-how-many-back-surgeries-will-i-need/

I hope this answers your question. Please feel free to comment again if it does not.

I thought about starting my own blog too but I’m just too lazy so, I guess I’ll just have to keep checking yours out.
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2) Regarding: “How many back surgeries will I need?” This is a GREAT question. I have made a note to write and entire post around this question so be sure to look for it. It has probably been about a year since I thoroughly researched this topic so I am drawing this entirely from memory, but here goes. The short answer is that it is VERY common for patients to ‘repeat’ a spinal surgery about every 7-10 years. This may not be a problem for an 80 year-old patient, but for someone in their 30′s, 40′s, 50′s, etc. this can be a rather shocking statistic. I will find the actual published reference and post it in a separate post.

The “surgery every 7-10 years” statistic has been firmly established for lumbar spinal fusion surgeries. It was once believed that this did not apply to other so-called ‘less invasive’ surgeries like laminectomies, discectomies, microdiscectomies and the like. However, recent evidence (about a year back, anyway, like I said before) has pointed to all lumbar spinal surgery patients requiring some form of aggressive intervention (usually surgery) for the spinal discs located either above or below the surgically treated disc level.

In our office we commonly see patients seeking Spinal Decompression years after having received ‘successful’ spinal surgery. The patients often report good results from the surgery and usually speak rather highly about their surgeon, but when I tell them that it is VERY common for patients to require ‘repeat’ surgeries they are often troubled that their surgeon didn’t tell them that. I have personally seen discs degenerate to the point of requiring Spinal Decompression within 3 years of having back surgery. I can definitely tell you that the 7-10 year number holds up very well in the patients that we have seen over the years.

On a side note, I would say that nearly half the patients that I have seen that have received spinal surgery tell me that they were operated on “by the best surgeon in all of Southern California”. I find this very hard to believe considering that it is rare that any of those patients received surgery from the same doc! I like to think that I am the “Best Spinal Decompression Doctor in All of Southern California” and our results certainly put us in the running, but I know several docs in SoCal that are doing fantastic work getting people better without surgery. Word to the wise – the next time someone tells you they are the best at what they do, it is highly likely that they are not. The best docs don’t need to toot their own horns – their patients, their staff, other doctors and their visible results will toot the horn for them. Food for thought.

I hope this answers your question.

A definite great read..Jim Bean