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How to best choose a spine surgeon?
Spine Health | Last Active: Jun 27 1:52am | Replies (82)Comment receiving replies
@loriesco
Hi. Great to know a good spinal surgeon!!! I would say, from 15 years working with surgeons, in general I've found, also from my person experience, that neurosurgeons tend to be more conservative than orthopedic surgeons. A bad personal experience of course carries great weight for us and I can understand making a judgement based on that. Just want to communicate that general information that neurosurgeons tend to be more conservative.
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@painsurvivor
What do you mean more conservative? Is that good or bad as far as outcomes? I had a laminotomy with a neurosurgeon that only helped me for two and a half months. Also he caused a pars fracture but wouldn't own up to it until I questioned him two years later as to what went wrong in the surgery.
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@painsurvivor dunno if they are "more" conservative. They can't look at the bones only the nerves. They look at two different sources of the problem. Sometimes the Neurologist can read/infer the problem to the bones from the MRI, but the Orthopedic surgeon looks at the bones, the discs, the compression, and other things the neurologist can't infer. It really depends on the person and their problem. The ego-driven neurologist I saw for 20 years, who became the dept. head, threw up his hands, "There is nothing more I can do." I said, "Fine, I'll just go home and take the opioids." Only THEN did he send me to Orthopedics, and I was IN SURGERY immediately!