3- Great Reasons To Avoid Back Surgery : Dr. Kirnjot Singh

Dr. Kirnjot Singh is an expert in spine and neck treatment, is a qualified physician who is Board Certified in Orthopedic Spine Surgery. Dr. Kirnjot Singh opines that if avoidable, the patient suffering from back pain should avoid surgery. However, Dr. Kirnjot Singh also suggests that there are many other reasons that will prompt the back pain patient to avoid the surgery.

1. Dr. Kirnjot Singh suggests that most of the times the MRI conducted in the back pain patients turn out to be abnormal. Dr. Kirnjot Singh opines that frequent and early use of MRIs or other kind of imaging diagnosis for spine is not useful as the disc abnormalities usually corrected within 6-months once the patient undertakes proper spinal care.
2. Dr. Kirnjot Singh suggests surgery is to be considered as the last recourse for many obvious reasons, such as price, and the very probability of positive outcome. Dr. Kirnjot Singh finds out that benefit from spine surgery is as low as 1 out of 100.
3. Dr. Kirnjot Singh further suggests that even the clinical trials conducted on the patients suffering from back pain do not recommend spine surgery as an effective method to treat lower or upper back pain cases.