Spine Doctor

A spine doctor is a general term for any back pain specialist who diagnoses and treats spinal conditions. The vast majority of back care practitioners believe that back pain is the direct result of abnormalities in the spinal structures. While this is possible, it does not make much medical sense that almost everyone develops the exact same degenerative changes in their spines as they age. However, only some patients experience painful symptoms. Add to this controversy that millions of patients, such as myself, have cured their chronic back pain using NO MEDICAL TREATMENT WHATSOEVER, even though they continue to demostrate the anatomical spinal abnormalities originally blamed for their back pain.

Spine Doctor Diagnosis

A spinal specialist can be a medical doctor, chiropractor or some type of complementary medicine practitioner. The doctor�s training and ideology are almost irrelevant to the fact that they will look for anything in the spine that might cause pain. The most commonly diagnosed structural pain conditions are:

* Herniated Discs

* Spinal Stenosis

* Degenerative Disc Disease

* Spinal Arthritis

While these fear inspiring conditions receive the bulk of back pain treatments, it is not common medical knowledge that they are all completely Normal and Universal for most people to experience in life. That�s right�they are NORMAL!!! It is almost unheard of to find an adult without one or more of these spinal conditions, whether they are experiencing pain or not. Diagnostic imaging studies often discover these conditions by accident, while testing for something unrelated to back pain. These patients have not experienced any pain, even though their spinal abnormalities might be considered �severe� by diagnostic standards.

Spine Doctor Specialist

Many spinal specialists can tell you the name of every nerve, bone, muscle, ligament and tendon in the back. They know everything about spinal anatomy, yet continue to diagnose pain conditions from structures that CAN NOT possibly be the actual cause of the pain! This is borderline criminal behavior, yet it goes on everyday all across the world. Patients often experience symptoms in a distinct anatomic location that are blamed on a coincidental condition that can not possibly be the cause of the pain. The spinal condition might affect a particular nerve root, yet symptoms are experienced in an area not even served by that affected nerve. Often, the symptoms move around and change, yet the diagnosed scapegoat spinal condition remains static and treatment is not altered. How does it make sense to blame pain on a completely innocent coincidental spinal abnormality? THIS is the multi-billion dollar question�

Recommendation on a Spine Doctor

If you have been in treatment for a long time with poor results, you need a change. The answer for your pain is not in finding the correct specialist who may hold the final solution to your pain question. The true answer is to study why your pain might not make sense according to the diagnosed condition. You must often repudiate the physical diagnosis in order to get better. You must be confident that there is nothing �wrong� with your physical spine. The abnormal conditions in your spine are universal and should actually be called SPINAL NORMALITIES instead of abnormalities�

Spine Doctor to Back Pain Home 6/13/08