Even Mayo Clinic admits that “back surgery is needed in only a small percentage of cases. Most back problems can be taken care of with nonsurgical treatments…, while  “back pain is extremely common..surgery often fails to relieve it.” So why do so many patients have spinal surgery?  A very recent research revealed that occupational or [...]

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It’s a rainy afternoon and you are on the way home when suddenly you stop because the car ahead of you stopped, and a second later you hear and feel your car being hit from the rear.  It happens so fast you are not quite sure what is going on for a few seconds.  After [...]

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 Scott was a hardworking machine operator with a wife and two little girls, but he had low back and leg pain was too excruciating for him to even hold them. Throughout the ten years of suffering from this serious chronic pain Scott did, on and off, see a chiropractor, but as the years went on and [...]

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Pain medications are often prescribed for back and neck pain and many chronic patients take them for a long term.  There can be side effects other than dependency and addiction.  One example is Vicodin which contains hydrocone and can cause both men and women to have hormone deficiencies, low sex drive, constipation, and impaired brain blood flow [...]

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According to a recent Oregon Health & Science University study published in Spine 20 percent of people who had a  low back fusion surgery developed post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms associated with that surgery, Past studies have noted PTSD symptoms in some trauma, cancer and organ transplant patients. But this is the first study, its authors believe, [...]

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MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) is called a “Super-Bug” because it is antibiotic resistant, and it can be many strains of S. aureus bacteria; it is not a virus. There are ongoing studies and efforts to develop new and better antibiotics, but it is a difficult task because the strains are always evolving and becoming resistant [...]

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John was a 58-year-old with diabetes, and he was on a downward spiral. He had not monitored his diabetes closely, and he certainly did not watch his diet. While his diabetes was under control to a degree, he was not in good condition. John was 75 pounds overweight, and he had been in pain with [...]

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Read the following opinion of Dr. George Lundberg, At Large for MedPage Today “A law is a rule of conduct or action formally recognized as binding and enforced by a controlling authority. Law enforcement broadly refers to any system by which some members of society act in an organized manner to promote adherence to the [...]

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Margaret is a retired teacher who worked diligently for forty-five years. But the last three years before her retirement, Margaret suffered with excruciating pain in her right buttock. She started noticing that the pain would become bad every time she would climb stairs or get out of her chair, which were obvious everyday tasks for [...]

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Many patients believe that they do not have control over their healthcare—but they do. It is true that insurance companies often dictate care. It is also true that patients are conditioned to go along with doctors’ recommendations. Therefore, they just do not seek other treatment options. Some doctors are used to patients going along with [...]

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