Back Pain and Surgery - The Risk of Back Surgery

Like all surgical procedures - back surgery has risks and you need to know what these risks are and discuss them with your doctor. From personal experience, some research and experiences of people I know who have had back surgery I have put together a short list. Unlike a lot of surgery any operation that involves or is close to the spinal cord carries some very significant risks. It is important to investigate more conservative approaches before consenting to surgery.

1. General anesthetic means that you are asleep during your operation. Some surgery can be done with local anesthesia but there are risks. You may be allergic and have a reaction to the anesthesia you could experience anaphylactic shock. Pneumonia and infections to the lungs can also result in the use of general anesthetics.

2. Infection: Any procedure involves the risk of infection. A friend of mine recently had an outpatient back surgery. Three days later he was in the emergency ward with a serious infection resulting in five days in the hospital and possible permanent nerve damage.

3. During a back operation it's possible that the membrane surrounding the spinal cord is punctured. If the surgeon does fix these punctures you run the risk of headaches, infection or even spinal meningitis.

4. You could suffer nerve damage. Anytime you are operating near the spinal cord you run the risk of nerve damage resulting in increase pain, numbness or even paralysis.

Additional risk: Loss of blood, blot clots, spinal fusion failure, the pins and other hardware can sift or more causing pain and the need for another operation. Finally the operation itself can fail. And even after a successful operation there is a long recovery period and possible physical therapy. All in all you need to be aware of the consequences of back surgery and make sure your doctor explains them to you. Fortunately my surgery seems to have been successful. Of course it's only been a week.

I still have to put up with four weeks or more of lying on my back and according to my surgeon I may never be one hundred percent. That's why I wish I had known about "The Lose The back Pain System". From my research this system seems to make sense. They have a long record of success. To my way of thinking non-evasive methods are far superior and virtually risk free as compared to surgery. You owe it to yourself to investigate this and other non surgery methods. For more information visit my resource box below.