by rss feed | Aug 7, 2025 | News Feeds, Spine and Back Pain
Hearing a doctor mention spinal surgery can be a heavy, overwhelming moment. The thought of a long recovery, potential risks, and significant downtime is enough to make anyone search for other options. For many people who feel they’ve reached the end of the road with...
by rss feed | Aug 7, 2025 | News Feeds, Spine and Back Pain
Hearing a doctor mention spinal surgery can be a heavy, overwhelming moment. The thought of a long recovery, potential risks, and significant downtime is enough to make anyone search for other options. For many people who feel they’ve reached the end of the road with...
by rss feed | May 4, 2025 | Hip Pain, News Feeds, Spine and Back Pain
Many people email us about their hip and back pain. Some have been recommended to a hip replacement, some have been recommended to a spinal surgery. Some have been recommended to both surgeries and they are in the process of choosing between one or the other and...
by rss feed | May 4, 2025 | News Feeds, Spine and Back Pain
As with other joint problems, I will often get emails that are simply an MRI report. The MRI tells me that the person has a disc herniation at L1 or L2 or L4 or L5. Then the report will describe varying degrees of degenerative disc disease. The email will end with...
by rss feed | May 4, 2025 | News Feeds, Spine and Back Pain
Marc Darrow, MD, JD. Epidural steroid injections do not heal a bad back. Some researchers consider epidural steroid injections to be, at best, a very short-term painkiller that sometimes prevents a patient from getting the proper treatment for his/her back pain. The...
by rss feed | Dec 26, 2020 | News Feeds, Spine and Back Pain
Marc Darrow MD,JD As the availability of elective surgery maybe become less available, many people who decided to move forward with surgery find themselves on a prolonged and delayed waiting list for the surgery and are now back on treatments that did not help them in...
