Now, if you have downloaded and read my free report (link over on the right there, just above my "Who am I" sidebar) you will know that I am not a fan of back surgery to cure back pain unless it is completely unavoidable, and that is the take of much of the medical profession.
So when I read this article on the BBC 4 website by Dr. Mark Porter, the well known media Doctor, (he's well known in the UK, trust me!) about his own experience with backpain and referred leg pain I thought you might be interested.
Dr. Porter says “I have always advised patients of mine to grin and bear the pain in the hope that Mother Nature will eventually heal the wound and do a better job than a surgeon, but my experience has changed that stance and I am now far more pro-surgery than I used to be. My pain never settled despite throwing the British National Formulary at it — and when I started to lose feeling and power in my left leg, a neurosurgeon suggested a microdiscectomy and I agreed”.
If you want to read the outcome, and how he is now, go here to find out.
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