Lumbar discectomy has a 10% reoperation rate and 20% complication rate, yet many patients expect surgery to permanently fix back problems. Conservative care focused on movement and biomechanics offers better lasting recovery than the temporary relief surgery typically provides.
Reoperation rates after Lumbar dissect me 6 to 12%. 6 to 12% reoperation rate after a lumbar discectomy. So for those patients who believe the surgery is quote, unquote, I need to fix my problem, well, there's about a 10% chance that that's not exactly going to be the case. And then you stack onto that roughly a 20% complication rate. The excluding red flags, almost everybody, they actually believe that that having the surgery is going to permanently fix their problem. And anything but that is a temporary fix. The irony here is these things might be flip flopped. The actual fix is with time, is with movement based care and letting the body heal in the most applicable and appropriate manner possible by having great biomechanics. All of the things that we know. What doesn't normally fix the problem, especially when you add to it the complication rate or doesn't resoundingly fix the problem, is the surgery itself.
