You know, as a fellow member of the damaged back club.....I've had every treatment known to "modern" medicine. I wish I'd never had the surgery. It never really fixed anything. I've been treated in recent years by a group call Spine and Pain Management. Their goal is to find the least invasive treatment that will work for you. I've had an IDET ( Intradiscal Electro Therapy ) and that worked wonders! They insert a wire into the disc then they heat the wire, It shrinks the disc. Its day surgery, no cutting you open. I was partially sedated, and while lying on the table, I knew when the applied the heat as the pain in my leg was suddenly GONE! In a blink. It was the first true relief I'd had in 22 years. My point is, therapy are alternatives to surgery. Do some research, before just letting some ($$$$$$$$$$$$$) surgeon hack away on you!
