Can Spinal Decompression Be Used For Patients That Have Had Spinal Surgery?
Short answer: Yes, but it always depends on the patient. In many cases spinal decompression treatment is appropriate for use in patients who have had spinal surgery. In fact many patients have found success with spinal decompression after a failed back surgery or a “successful” one that after time becomes a problem again. However, not [...]
Are The Decompression Treatment Results Permanent?
The other day I had the experience of sitting down with a past patient from my Rancho Cucamonga office who had returned! I was very surprised to see him since we had saved him from surgery and that was over a year ago. That last time I saw him (lets call this patient Mr. G), [...]
Top 3 Problems with Surgery – Part 2
Continued from last week. #2 – Once you go under the knife, you can’t undo what’s been done. Once a surgery has taken place, the surgery cannot be undone. Once bone has been removed (as was the case with Dr. Don’s mother) it can not be put back. Plus, once the surgeon goes in, the [...]
Top 3 Problems with Surgery
When Dr. Ian Porterfield and I consult with patients about alternatives to surgery, like chiropractic or spinal decompression, I’m surprised to find out how little they even know about surgery – the very thing that they are afraid of and the very thing that people tell them that they need. So, here are some interesting [...]
Weak Doctors Recommend Bed Rest
Why is it that when research and experience tells a doctor that something doesn’t help, they still recommend that useless procedure to the patient? Well… many ignorant doctors are still recommending bed rest! And if you follow their advice for your severe back and leg problem your condition could very well get worse like it [...]
When It Comes To Your Health, FREE Can Be Extremely Expensive!
Sometimes I have a consultation that just boggles my mind – I had on of those consultations just now in my Rancho Cucamonga office and there is a lesson for you – the sufferer of severe pain. Let me first set the stage… This 72 year old suffered with low back pain for 8 years [...]
Digestive Health and Back Pain
Look, I know many people who have really bad back pain have at one time or another had to crawl (literally) to the bathroom. That’s not what this article it about, but rather, how to help your back, by helping your digestive system. Who would have thought that my back pain and my digestive system [...]
When I Lay Down, It Takes Forever For Me To Get Back Up!
Have you ever had back pain so bad, that when you lay down, you simply can’t get up. I hear it all the time – “Doc, my back hurt, so I laid down but then couldn’t get back up!” Perhaps you’ve had that experience. Sometimes I hear how frightened the patient gets that they call [...]
Ugly Disc Herniations and Doctors Can Often Scare You into Surgery
Disc problems (bulging, prolapsed, herniated, sequestered, extruding) vary in how “bad” they are… and just because they “look bad” know that you don’t have to be scared into having surgery. I remember when I was very young, my mother sneezing and then falling to her knees due to excruciating back pain. I remember my mother [...]
Back Surgery Sucks – Even When It Is “Successful”!
As I write this blog, my head is spinning from sadness, frustration, and anger… Why you ask? I got the news that an old patient of mine died from complications from surgery… It is my hope that this blog will help someone through the death of a friend… it is also my hope that blogging [...]