Patients with bad hips or knees who get back surgery see worse results, according to 2025 studies. Decompression clinicians should evaluate and treat hip and knee problems alongside or after spinal therapy to improve outcomes.
For our decompression doctors listening to this out there, what Dr. Vince was saying, the connection between hip or knee and spine, there's actually been studies that have come out just this last year in 2025. For instance, people that have back surgery, but they have a hip that's not very good, surgery doesn't work as well. If they have back surgery and they have a bum knee, surgery doesn't work as well. It's no different with our decompression protocols. If you have a decompression patient that's not getting great results, it could be because they got a bad knee or a bad hip that needs attention as well. And so you may have to clean up the knee or the hip with a protocol either in addition to or following or
