Internationally Renowned Medical Expert,Aaron G. Filler MD, Shares the Hard Facts About Back and Neck Pain to Arm Suffers With Knowledge They Need
Dr. Aaron G. Filler MD, has authored a surgeon's guide to neck and back pain and how sufferers can choose a range of treatments. Dr Filler outlines all of the treatments available as well as the risks of surgery.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 16, 2004 -- Internationally Renowned Medical
Expert, Aaron G. Filler, MD Shares the Hard Facts About Back & Neck Pain to
Arm Sufferers With Knowledge They Need.
Do you suffer from chronic back
pain that you’d try anything to get rid of? If so you're not alone. Over 1.25
million patients have MRI scans annually but only 15% get successful treatment.
Over 300,000 undergo painful–and painfully expensive–lumbar spine surgeries each
year to correct back pain and one third don’t feel any better afterwards. Almost
a million don’t get help. Outdated MRI scans and EMG testing yield misleading
information to doctors nationwide, who in turn recommend procedures that can
have little effect in curing the pain.
Now there’s something you can do.
Internationally recognized expert in nerve and spinal surgery Dr. Aaron G.
Filler, MD, PhD has written a comprehensive guide to what causes back pain, what
your options are to treat it and what the risks and rewards are to choosing
surgery. DO YOU REALLY NEED BACK SURGERY? A Surgeon’s Guide to Neck and Back
Pain & How to Choose Your Treatment is the layman’s comprehensive guide that
covers everything back patients need to know to make informed, realistic
decisions about their treatment.
The biggest problem is that doctors
still rely on physical and neurological diagnostic techniques that have proven
to be ineffective, according to Dr. Filler. Terrific advances have been made in
the field that simply aren’t yet in standard use.
“Lumbar MRI provides
misleading diagnostic information more than 90% of the time,” said Filler. “The
physical exam is actually very limited and really has not advanced to keep pace
with current knowledge. The best way forward appears to be the correct
application of new technology and improved education on the part of
patients.”
For instance newly available MR Neurography imaging of nerves
and the use of open MRI for real-time guidance during diagnostic tests are two
desperately needed advances that have only just become available. The book
provides detailed explanations of these techniques as well as a wide array of
new spinal injections, surgeries and procedures now available to the patient.
The book also details the differences between acute, chronic and
recurring pain and goes over exercise and preventative measures to keep the
spine healthy. DO YOU REALLY NEED BACK SURGERY? A Surgeon’s Guide to Neck and
Back Pain and How to Choose Your Treatment is an authoritative, easy-to-read
one-stop-shop for back pain suffers that will help empower patients to make
better decisions about their treatment. It will also help stem the flow of
unhelpful MRI scans and ill-advised spine surgeries that annually cost the
insurance industry $1.25 billion and $45 billion respectively.
AUTHOR
BIO:
Dr. Aaron G. Filler (MD – University of Chicago, PhD – Harvard
University) is one of the world’s leading experts on spinal surgery and
diagnostic imaging. He is the holder of numerous significant patents in the
medical field and has published many important scientific articles including a
major report on diagnostic and treatment methods just published in Neurologic
Clinics (Saunders/Elsevier). Dr Filler has appeared as a guest on CNN, with
Peter Jennings on ABC World News Tonight and the BBC. He has been interviewed by
such prestigious publications as The New York Times and The Economist, among
many others.
Dr Filler has taught at UCLA, Harvard University, and the
University of London. He is currently Medical Director of the Institute for
Nerve Medicine in Santa Monica, California and an associate of the Institute for
Spinal Disorders at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Do You Really
Need Back Surgery? A Surgeon’s Guide to Neck and Back Pain and How to Choose
Your Treatment is his second book. Additional information, including color
illustrations from Dr. Filler’s book can be accessed via www.backpain-guide.com.
Do You Really Need Back Surgery? A Surgeon’s Guide to Neck and Back Pain
and How to Choose Your Treatment is available in major bookstores and outlets
across the U.S, including Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com
DO YOU REALLY
NEED BACK SURGERY?
A Surgeon’s Guide to Neck and Back Pain and How to Choose
Your Treatment
By Aaron G. Filler, MD, PhD
Publisher: Oxford University
Press
352 pages; $25.00
ISBN)-19-515835-0
For a media interview
with Dr. Aaron G. Filler MD contact Charlie Barrett, The Barrett Company
Communications, Los Angeles, 310-471-5764.
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