Even though spine surgery continues to get smaller thanks to minimally invasive techniques, odds are you will have one or more incision sites that you’ll need to care for after your operation. You’ll want to keep a close eye on the incision site and clean the area as recommended by your doctor until … [Read more...] about When To Worry About Surgical Site Drainage
If a friend or family member will be undergoing spine surgery in the near future, odds are you want to help them any way you can. However, most people only focus on what they can do to help a person once the surgery is complete. And while this makes sense when you consider that they’ll be dealing … [Read more...] about How To Help Someone Before Spine Surgery
Spine surgery, no matter how small, is a traumatic experience for your body, and odds are that some pain and discomfort will be present following your operation as your body works to heal. Nobody likes to be in pain, so we work with all of our patients to help reduce their discomfort and make it as … [Read more...] about 7 Tips For Controlling Pain Following Spinal Surgery
Because most people don’t have a lot of experience with back surgery or life after a spinal operation, it’s common for patients to come in with some misunderstandings or misconceptions about the process. This is completely normal, but coming into a situation with mismatched expectations or confusion … [Read more...] about 5 Common Misconceptions About Spine Surgery
We hope that all of our patients are good candidates for surgery if that’s the route we believe is best for the patient, but sometimes being a bad candidate for a surgical procedure is actually a good thing. In today’s blog, we explain what factors make someone an ideal candidate for spine surgery, … [Read more...] about Am I A Good Candidate For Spine Surgery?
Even when performed using minimally invasive techniques, surgery is a major trauma to your body. And while the physical trauma of surgery has the end goal of helping you be more active and have less pain, it can take weeks or months after your operation to reach this point. Because structures are … [Read more...] about 3 Ways To Regain Spinal Mobility After Surgery
If you have a surgery on the schedule, you’re probably excited about the prospect of finally putting your back pain behind you. Surgery can be the perfect solution for patients who have been unable to find relief through conservative methods, but getting a procedure approved and on the schedule … [Read more...] about How To Relieve Back Pain While You’re Waiting For Surgery
For the vast majority of Americans, their spine surgery would have been avoidable had they taken certain steps earlier in life. Obviously there are countless cases where a freak injury or a car accident requires an emergency surgery, but there are more elective spinal surgeries each year than … [Read more...] about 6 Tips for Avoiding Spine Surgery
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