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Spine healthWhat Actually Causes Back Pain
The three different ways a back can hurt, how to tell the common causes apart from your own symptom pattern, what the evidence supports, and the narrow set of situations where surgery is genuinely the answer.
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3 articlesDo Herniated Discs Heal Without Surgery?
Most herniated discs reabsorb on their own, and counterintuitively the largest fragments have the best odds. Here are the actual resorption rates, what to modify while you wait, and where the evidence puts the surgical decision.
Read9 min readTreatment optionsEndoscopic vs Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
These two terms are not the same kind of word, which is why the marketing around them is so confusing. What the difference actually is, what the randomized evidence shows, and why the surgeon matters more than the technique.
Read7 min readChoosing your careHow to Choose a Spine Surgeon
How to weigh training, fellowship, board certification, and surgical volume, including the orthopedic versus neurosurgery question, from a fellowship-trained spine neurosurgeon.
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