COMPLICATIONS of SURGERY

COMPLICATIONS of SURGERY should surely cause one to consider the alternatives before going under the knife! I quote here from a major orthopaedic website, weighing up the pros and cons of surgery for spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal canal that causes a deep seated ache in one or both legs.

Interestingly, they advocate Chiropractic help as one of the alternatives to be considered.

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• Injury to the nerves See the casefile below...
  

• Need for further surgery

• Failure of screws or rods

• Failure of the bone fusion to heal

• Return of symptoms after some time

• Failure to relieve symptoms

• Tear of the sac covering the nerves (dural tear)

• Reaction to anesthesia

• Blood clots

• Infection

• Bleeding

  The risks of surgery depend on the patient and the exact procedure being performed. Elderly patients have higher rates of complications from surgery. So do overweight patients, diabetics, smokers, and patients with multiple medical problems."

  
  

  

  
  Chiropractors are not against good surgery, just the same as surgeons are not against good Chiropractic. Both are an art and a science and neither are developed in a flash. I am a 1000 times better chiropractor than I was even ten years ago. I hope and believe that will be the case in another ten years time - we cease to improve only when we become ol' dogs, unable to learn new tricks! Or think we know it all ... that's sometimes in the twenties.

  Obviously, it's always makes good sense to try the simpler treatments first, those which have less serious side-effects and cost less money. The complications of surgery are clearly greater than those of chiropractic.

  If your thumb hurts, try rubbing it and putting some ice on it before consulting any sort of doctor!

  
  

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  BRUISE EASILY?

  If you bleed and bruise easily, think PARSLEY. It may save you from one of the complications of surgery. It's rich in vitamin K, the vitamin that promotes coagulation of the blood. If you are taking anticoagulants for any reason, then discuss with your doctor before swallowing bucketloads of parsely benefits! Read more ... PARSLEY BENEFITS ...
  
  
  

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  "THE LIFE SO SHORT, THE CRAFT SO LONG TO LEARN."

  HIPPOCRATES, father of Medicine.

  
  

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  FROM THE CHIROPRACTIC COALFACE

  COMPLICATIONS of SURGERY

  Everyone has a distressing day periodically, I suppose. Yesterday was an unhappy day. I had an elderly new patient, and woke up several times in the night thinking about her...

  Mrs P, aged 75, has she assured me never had a sore back. Never. Well, not until the last eighteen months. Now she has unrelenting, continuous pain. She can't sit, she can't stand, walking is a nightmare...

  It all started three years ago with pain in the right groin. Her doctor (correctly, I believe) diagnosed hip arthritis. HIP ARTHRITIS ...
  
  When the pain didn't respond to anti inflammatory drugs he referred her to an orthopaedic surgeon who concurred, but said the arthritis was so minimal, that he suspected a pinched nerve in the back, and referred her to a neurologist. And hence to the neurosurgeon. An MRI suggested a condition called lumbar stenosis, a narrowing of the canal. CHIROPRACTIC HELP Lumbar stenosis newsletter...
  
  "But I've never had a day's back pain in my life, doctor," said she. Hard to believe actually, having seen the X-rays of her back, but apparently so.

  "You'll be a wheelchair within six months if you don't through with this operation," retorted the surgeon.

  From the moment she woke up after an extensive decompression surgery she has had severe low back pain, AND pain radiating down to her big toe, AND she still has the hip and groin pain. What's more, it's getting worse, not better.

  Can Chiropractic help? Time will tell... whilst the complications of chiropractic are acknowledged, they are with very few exceptions minimal compared to the complications of surgery.

  
  

  CORRECT DIAGNOSIS

  COMPLICATIONS of SURGERY

  There is still a hard core of chiropractors who scoff at making a diagnosis. Whilst it's true that research shows that doctors in general make the correct diagnosis less than 50% of the time, I believe it's still vital we try. The above case is simply a case of a wrong diagnosis. Mrs P's general practitioner knows more about examination and diagnosis it would seem than her orthopaedic surgeon, neurologist and a neurosurgeon. She has the classic signs of pain in the groin, and restricted painful ranges of motion of the hip. Period. Hip arthritis.

  Update: Ah, jumping to conclusions, was I, just like her surgeon. Now that I've seen the X-rays of her hip, Mrs P has a most unusual hip: a combination of Femero Acetabular Impingement Syndrome (FAIS), that is causing the decreased range of motion (it's not arthritis) AND a classic unroofed hip, Developmental Hip Dysplasia (that causes increased range of motion in the young person, gradually becoming stiff as the patient ages. And neither have caused significant arthritis. I've never seen it before.

  So we will start with Mrs P's hip, it's certainly to be helped. After that botched surgery of her back... of that, I'm not so sure. Watch this space! ARTHRITIS IN LOWER BACK ...
  
  FEMERO ACETABULAR IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME ...
  
  DEVELOPMENTAL HIP DYSPLASIA CaseFile ...
  
  

  FISH OIL

  Many orthopaedic surgeons are now recommending Omega-3 fish oil after surgery because the hyaline cartiage heals faster. Better still, eat fatty fish. There are so many ways to cook salmon and this broccoli and salmon soup is a treat. WAYS TO COOK SALMON ... Broccoli and Salmon soup recipe ...
  
  
• FISH OIL ...
  
  

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  ORTHO INFO

  This is a very useful medical site on the complications of surgery: http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00329

  ATHEROSCLEROSIS

  Insufficient blood reaching the site of surgery is considered the greatest risk factor of surgery. If the tissue that has been operated upon doesn't receive adequate oxygen and nutrients it simply doesn't heal. What is this nasty condition, aka "hardening of the arteries?" PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS ...
  
  

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