Guest guest Posted December 30, 2009 Report Share Posted December 30, 2009 Im 37 and I have a degenerative disk with a hair line fracture. I've tried a chiropractor, physical therapy, decompression and some other things and now I'm thinking I'm going to have to look at surgery. I have heard some nightmares from people telling me not to have surgery and just live with it, but I can not sit down for more than 15 minutes with out aggravating my back. I live in Dallas and have been looking at doctors and these back hospitals and back institutes and I don't know what is the better option a individual doctor or one of these institutes that do a large volume of surgeries. Any feedback would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2009 Report Share Posted December 30, 2009 I read different things and none of them sound great. About 50% of the people I talk to who have surgery on their back find that it helps. That si not very good in my opinion. They say that 30 to 70% (whatever THAT means) of the people who have the epidural cortisone injections find that helps.... To me the odds aren't very good. I've tried a lot of other things. It's very hard to do all of the stretches and exercises the way that the " experts " tell you to do them when it hurts so much. I am still at a bit of a loss, Tim but at least we can console each other until someone else speaks up! From: " Tim " <tmmediainc@...> > Im 37 and I have a degenerative disk with a hair line fracture. I've > tried a chiropractor, physical therapy, decompression and some other > things and now I'm thinking I'm going to have to look at surgery. I > have heard some nightmares from people telling me not to have > surgery and just live with it, but I can not sit down for more than > 15 minutes with out aggravating my back. I live in Dallas and have > been looking at doctors and these back hospitals and back institutes > and I don't know what is the better option a individual doctor or > one of these institutes that do a large volume of surgeries. Any > feedback would be great. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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