Factor to Consider When Choosing between Therapy or Surgery

Every living thing becomes ill or injured at one point or another; it is an inevitable part of life that can and will not be changed. A percentage of humans have dedicated their lives to learning how to repair and restore the human body when it is at its weakest. Throughout the history of time, these individuals’ studies have helped future generations increase the knowledge of the care of the human body and create new techniques to improve treatment. Thousands of years ago it was impossible for a person to perform a rachioplasty (surgical repair of the spinal column or vertebrae), however in the twenty first century not only are professional doctors able to go into a person’s body and fix the spine but recently other trained individuals are able to manipulate the spine column without invasive surgery. Possessing the choice to now choose which treatment the patient can have done, more are asking which is better spinal surgery or spinal therapy. Three main factors that are looked at when considering choosing surgery or therapy are the stress output on the body, how much will the treatment cost, and the effectiveness of the treatment.

When performing any kind of surgery on the human body it is important to note the stress the body undergoes. Typically a spinal surgery will require the surgeon to create an incision (also known as a medical wound) along the backside near the spine (citation). This medical wound effectively damages the muscles causing the patient pain and limited movement for a certain amount of time depending on the type of surgery (citation). Manipulation of the spine via surgical will usually make a patient stay in a hospital for two to three days, during this time doctors and nurses will tea...

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... the surgery typically look at the how well they did at repairing what was abnormal in the spine, not patient satisfaction (citation). When experiencing pain of the condyle the recipient of such pain should look into therapy first not surgery, majority of the time it will only take a few visits that require little to no stress input on the body, meaning no destroying of muscles or tissues. Along with dispersing the pain Spinal therapy provides great preventive measures from any future incidents by strengthening muscles attached to the spinal column and setting the spine to its proper position. not only is the therapy treatment less stressful for the body but less time is needed to be taken off from work for the individual receiving the surgery.
Obtaining surgery just does not affect the patient physically but financially as well. while the surgery may greatly