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ouch!!! 18-Aug-2009 At 8:54:40 PM pisces

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Well, yeah, there is a place for surgery. Sometimes you go in to a patient suffering severe pain and
pull out an absolute plum of an extruded lumbar disc and you just know the patient is cured and the
surgeon makes the usual surgeon-type narcissistic comment- "What a lucky person this patient
is!"(implication- "to have me as a surgeon"). Ditto result for some compromised intervertebral canals in
arthritic spines. Not so sanguine about fusions, except in the rare case, but I don't think we do
anything like the harm we used to do in the 1990s, now that minimally invasive fusion techniques are
available.
As for your sciatica cogsy, beats me without knowing details of your case, and even if I did I wouldn't
hazard a definitive "mainstream western med" opinion as I am not practiced in neuro/ortho consulting;
merely an assistant surgeon am i. Still, if it was me, having tried intensive yoga for a long period and
finding it not the answer, I'd certainly get an opinion from a neurosurgeon with a good reputation (rather
than an orthopod as it sounds like nerves are involved with the tingling:... nerve conduction studies?). I
was very impressed by an article I read many years ago about a back-pain patient who had been
through the allopathic medical mill to no avail, and finally hauled himself off to a yoga ashram in India
for a year. A year of pain and daily discipline, after which his back was 100%, to which an incredible
accompanying photo of him in contorted pose attested. I could tell more stories about results I have
seen from Reiki etc, but by now you can sense my bias. What can I say? I'm a pisces, we're from
another planet.