[giardini]

legitster says >"- For back pain, there is almost no medical solution other than surgery. If surgery is optional, don't take it. The recovery from a back surgery is brutal and long and can come with unintended consequences."<

I have two friends who had almost identical spinal & neck issues: both got no relief until they had surgeries. Both say "Why prolong the suffering? Do the surgery!" One of them did have to wear a neck brace for months, but that was because his surgeon found the old neck vertebra was too delicate to keep, and so cut a chunk of bone out of his patient's hip, hand-carved it to the shape of a healthy vertebra and inserted it into his patient's neck. When the patient awoke he complained about the pain in his hip (his neck was fine).

Now that's the kind of surgeon I want!