Take Back Control: A Surgeon's Guide to Healing Your Spine Without Medications or Surgery - Softcover

Kamshad Raiszadeh; MD

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997591803 ISBN 13: 9780997591804

Publisher: OptiFit Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Yes, You Can Heal Your Back Without Surgery or Addictive Drugs.

When your back hurts, your life hurts. Chronic back pain makes going about your business very difficult. Turning to your doctor doesn't always help.

Back pain sufferers know better than anyone: Our healthcare system is broken. Surgeons, physical therapists, and physicians offer conflicting advice. Surgery is costly and often ineffective. Health insurance severely limits treatment options. Out of desperation, doctors prescribe opioids that cycle patients towards dependence. Meanwhile, Americans lead high-stress, sedentary lives that perpetuate back pain.

The good news is that America is shifting toward prevention and more natural healing methods and spine surgeon Kamshad Raiszadeh, MD is leading the way. In Take Back Control: A Surgeon s Guide to Healing Your Spine Without Medications or Surgery, he makes a compelling case that, for many back and neck pain sufferers, medically supervised therapeutic exercise is much more effective than current treatments.

Based on what s worked for thousands of patients in his California-based SpineZone Medical Fitness clinics, Dr. Raiszadeh outlines the science-based principles you can use to get stronger without surgery or meds. You'll learn:

Why our fragmented, expensive, and inefficient healthcare system so often fails at treating back pain

How to ensure you get the right care at the right time, for effective pain relief

Why strengthening is the #1 secret for long-term back health...and the surprising reasons that so many people fail to do it right

How even the most debilitated patients can substitute their own body s endorphins for addictive prescription drugs

Insider tips for developing the positive habits and support you need to succeed

Sprinkled with practical tips and real life stories that illustrate Dr. Raiszadeh s lessons, Take Back Control is the perfect read for those who are ready to take responsibility for their own health and reclaim a more joyful, active life.

About this title

About the Author

Kamshad Raiszadeh, MD, is a clinical instructor at the University of California, San Diego, founder/director of the Spine Institute of San Diego, and chief medical officer and co-founder of SpineZone Medical Fitness. He is a board-certified, fellowship-trained spine surgeon, member of the Scoliosis Research Society, and expert in minimally invasive surgery with an active surgical practice in San Diego, CA. He believes that we each deserve a life of vitality and full function and that we can create it for ourselves by actively engaging in our recovery from chronic back pain.

Dr. Raiszadeh has an unusual perspective for a spine surgeon. Early on in his career, he realized that for most chronic back and neck pain patients, surgery is rarely the best solution. Convinced that there must be a better way, he and his team set about designing, developing, and perfecting a program that utilizes the best science in back care administered by different spinal specialists to empower patients. The team uses a high-tech, high-touch method to closely monitor patients and guide them through the program.

Over the past 10 years, his group has grown SpineZone into a highly successful, non-operative, multi-specialty clinic that has been shown to decrease or eliminate the need for surgery, injections, and addictive opioids. Besides its emphasis on strengthening weakened core muscles, SpineZone has used education, self-empowerment, and psychological health techniques to help close to 7,000 patients enjoy full and lasting recoveries.

Review

Knowing what I know now, I wish I had taken Dr. Raiszadeh s advice and exhausted all options with rehab rather than going through with back surgery. There s too much that can go wrong when you expose your spinal canal to surgery. Rehab may take time, but n the long run it s a much better choice.
-- Steve Kerr, Head Coach, Golden State Warriors of the NBA

We are in the midst of a devastating opioid addiction crisis, an epidemic fueled by our collective societal delusion that our lifestyle choices don t matter, that there s a quick surgical or pharmaceutical fix for everything, and that our minds have nothing to do with our physical bodies or overall health. I would have thought that the last person to help light the way out would be a spine surgeon, a specialist who is expert at doing things to people but not always for people. Which is why Dr. Raiszadeh s book is so amazing. With a deep humility, Dr. Raiszadeh uses personal stories drawn from his career and life to show us that we can heal when we focus on the root causes of our suffering, with compassion, patience, and wisdom. A must-read for anyone suffering with or treating chronic pain.
-- Zubin Damania, MD, Founder, Turntable Health, ZDoggMD

In surgery they say that a chance to cut is a chance to cure. For Dr. Raiszadeh, however, the chance to intervene is the moment to step back and offer a holistic set of physical therapy, counseling, and lifestyle services, leaving surgery only as the last resort. Take Back Control offers sensible advice backed by scientific literature and examples from Dr. Raiszadeh s clinical experience to patients suffering from severe back pain who might be rushing toward a surgical solution even though safer and cheaper options are available.

Dr. Raiszadeh exhorts the patient to take control of his health through lifestyle changes, supported by medical care only when needed. He exhorts his surgical colleagues to remain humble in the face of the limitations and risks inherent in their skills. And in regard to the healthcare system, he shows how the transition of spine care from surgery first to surgery when needed can save money for society and improve well-being for patients.
-- James Robinson, PhD, Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Economics, Director, Berkeley Center for Health Technology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

Edition details

• Publisher: OptiFit Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0997591803
• ISBN 13: 9780997591804
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 230