Things That Doctors Don't Tell You
Tuesday, Aug 18, 2020, 5:26 pm
By:
Tony Williams
#8 Most Back Surgeries Are Not Necessary
Statistics show that nearly 750,000 people suffer from spinal-compression fractures annually. This injury causes severe back pain, which leads doctors to perform around 600,000 surgeries to treat these ruptures. Though back surgery may seem necessary, a recent study has shown that they do not work. Researchers out of Australia took two groups of people and gave one half Vertebroplasty, a common back surgery, and the other a bogus procedure, which gives the illusion that they underwent back surgery. The experts found no legitimate difference between the two groups.
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