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For anyone that is contemplating surgical treatment for spinal pain or knows any friends or family in the situation, last nights four corners is a must watch.
Fully agree. The digest on the abc justin news is a good foretaste. link
That was a heartbreaking read.
Doctors are not gods and all advice should be treated with skepticism, especially when a lot of money is going to be made and ESPECIALLY when your spine is involved.
especially!!
That's why I'm so careful, I let practically no one touch me other than doctors .
Plenty of doctors I wouldn't trust either tbh.
true that
The best advice I've had, from neurosurgeons, I still follow, which was "rest", stay in bed
unfortunately I didn't have a long enough consultation to learn how to avoid back pain
that I had to find myself by noting patterns of my behaviour
Got offered a steroid epidural. Chose not to in the end, was mostly better by that point.
I have never considered it