Dr. Vince Leone says 1.5 million spinal surgeries happen annually in the US, with a 50% success rate. He argues doctors should be honest about those odds and try non-surgical treatments first, which skip the six-month recovery and surgical complications.
Having this knowledge base of what other healthcare providers, like a spinal surgeon, looks at as a success barometer is important because you can share that with your patients. When you're in your report of findings, I mean, do you think this would be helpful? Hey, did you know there's 125,000 spinal surgeries every single month? That's about 1.5 million a year. Do you know what their success standard is? 50%. So if— and if our success standard is 50%, potentially better, Wouldn't it make sense, common sense, to explore all the non-surgical solutions first where you don't have to have 6 months of rehab, you don't have to risk all the complications of surgery?
