The Leader in Spinal Medicine and
Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery.
Elimination of Chronic Dependency on Medical Systems and Resources
Spinal pain and disability costs society literally billions of dollars per year. Fortunately, most patients with spinal pain and injury get better without a lot of help from the doctor. Still, 1 out of 10 patients will develop chronic pain and decreased quality of life that requires ongoing medical attention and possible surgery.
Previously, many of these patients wound up in “pain clinics” for long periods of time, receiving habit forming drugs and repeated short term injections with little or no long term benefit. When treatment stopped, pain returned. Some patients faced the risk and expense of spinal surgery only to experience recurrent symptoms, and often wound up back in the cycle of drugs, injections, and pain clinic visits forever. At Synergy Spine Center, our success results from the ability to get patients OUT of the medical care system and back to a productive life, away from the medical system. Addicting pain drugs are almost never used, and if ever, only for short periods. Spinal injections are used for diagnostic purposes, or only as long as necessary to allow natural healing to occur; usually less than a few weeks.
The majority of our patients are discharged within 60 days after they are first seen, and only return for additional care if needed, typically every two to three years.
Better Diagnosis Better Therapy
The spine is a complex biomechanical organ designed and built by the Master Engineer. Its parts are made to work together yet serve many different functions. A “one size fits all” approach to treatment is seldom successful. Some back pains don’t come from the spine at all and may require additional evaluation and referral. If the spine is involved, the facet joints (the “hinges”), the discs (the “shock absorbers”), nerves (the “wiring”) and connecting structures can all produce pain, and are all treated quite differently.
The first thing that happens when a patient is seen at Synergy is a careful history, physical examination, and review of medical records. No patient walks in the door and receives an injection, procedure, or medication on the first visit. If additional tests are necessary, these are completed and reviewed before any treatment is started, just like in any other field of real medicine. Once we have determined what is wrong, specific treatment directed at the cause is begun.
With this approach, most patients get better much faster with less down time and expense.
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