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If you needed to decide on a surgery would you expect its success rate to be very high? What about if it was well below 50% – would you still take your chance?

Dr. David Hanscom was a top orthopedic spine surgeon for 15 years. Then he quit – because the stress and pressure of perfection he demanded of himself wore him down, but more importantly, because he discovered that the overall success rate of spine surgeries was far below 50%, and the suffering caused by failures far greater than the upsides.

He took that knowledge and his own experience in overcoming stress to formulate another kind of science-based approach to treating pain; one that doesn’t rely on surgical intervention.

This interview spreads from his past work and the lesser-known truths behind spine surgeries and the things you should ask when making that decision, to the very close overlap between physical and emotional pain, the causes and consequences, and the ways we can relearn to handle our mental and emotional body to improve the physical one.

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