Did you know that many of the spine surgeries that are made actually they were not necessary? Because that is the reality. Dr. David Hanscom joins us today to explain a topic that is discussed in his book ‘Do You Really Need Spine Surgery?: Take Control With a Surgeon’s Advice’; which is that usually, the success rate of spinal surgeries is very low if patients’ chronic pain has not been treated before the procedure. He also brings valuable scientific information and statistics about this problematic, which is nowadays happening without control and affects many people.

Dr. David A. Hanscom is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in the surgical correction complex problems in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine. A significant part of his practice was devoted to performing surgery on patients who had undergone multiple prior spine surgeries. Around 2001 he began to share his own stress management tool with his patients that were in pain but had no indications of surgery. He had spent much of his career with rehabilitation physicians learning non-operative care. Nowadays, he is focusing his efforts on bringing effective medical treatments for chronic mental and physical pain back into mainstream medicine. His last practice position was Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, Swedish Neuroscience Specialists, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA (retired in December 2018).