Dr. Vince Leone explains why patients and surgeons measure spine surgery success differently. Patients need minimal clinically important improvement, the smallest change that justifies surgery. Surgeons typically call it a win at 50% symptom reduction, but Leone argues these definitions should align.
What that means in English is whatever intervention a patient does, be it chiropractic decompression, surgery, that's what they have found is the minimal threshold of improvement that patients deem it was worthwhile for me to go through this treatment. But surgeons consider it a surgical success in their mind if a spine surgery patient gets 50% better.
I love the concept of this because it's like, Well, look, we can align ourselves with where surgical, you know, from a surgeon's standpoint, what they feel success is. That's not even what the, the top spinal surgeons expect, you know?
Correct. So that's really the take-home.
Yeah, exactly. So I mean, that's ridiculous. So if, if, if the registration was $750 or whatever, that's a 10x
