The Perils of Back Surgery | Dr. David Hanscom | Talks at Google

Orthopedic spine surgeon Dr. David Hanscom visits Google to discuss the harsh realities of spine surgery and to offer a groundbreaking new approach to solving chronic back pain.
After decades of performing complex spine surgery, Dr. Hanscom realized a difficult truth: surgery was rarely effective in helping his patients alleviate their back pain. This realization - combined with his own battles with chronic pain - sparked Dr. Hanscom to develop a novel, evidenced-based program for solving chronic pain.
Dr. Hanscom is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with Swedish Neuroscience Specialists in Seattle, WA. His chronic pain roadmap can be found at www.backincontrol.com.

[@formerfundienowfree4235]

Brilliant! this needs 10 million views

[@lukecarter8100]

I just found this video. I broke my spine and I’m seriously considering this advice from Dr. to help me. Believe me, when one goes thru pain bad enough, their willing to try just about anything to get well. Thank you Doc. ✌️

[@djmoorephx]

Another question, what about hardware in the back compressing nerves, causing pain? Hardware is not normal in the back. I've had allergies to metals, especially nickel. I still itch at my defibrillator site. I have neuropathy from my waist to my feet and was told it was nerves healing. The surgery was Oct 2014. It definitely would be healed, yet, my neuropathy is worse than ever since the pain clinic doctor has taken away most of my opioids. Opioids actually do help my pain. Many ppl with TMS say the drugs didn't help them.

[@ULTD8]

great subject

[@MadFrenzy582]

was the audio terrible for anyone else?

[@larryc506]

Turn your playback to .75. Much easier to understand

[@elisae5658]

.Love this siubject...The audio is terrible, C'mon GOOGLE I Have to hide in a small space to listen

[@pamela659]

Very good message l want your book

[@djmoorephx]

Audio very bad on this. Was disappointed I couldn't listen.

[@djmoorephx]

If pain pathways are like learning how to ride a bicycle, why do we not maintain pathways on how to do algebra? We must have created pathways on how to do algebra, but because we don't use it, we lose it. Why do some pathways stay forever, never forgetting what we learned, but we lose other pathways from use it or lose it? I'm sincerely confused about that?

[@sourbuttasty4424]

Alegra isn´t as important in most cases, emotional components are involved in how "strongly" pathways are formed. Pain is important for survival and it also creates an emotional response when it occurs that makes it rememberable. In most cases, algebra doesn´t produce all these responses that make it worth "saving" in the same sense. It´s like when you remember exactly what you were doing when something big happened, like what you doing/wearing/ eating/saying the day the twin towers got hit for example. You don´t remember pointless details like that normally, but because something very emotional happened it got burned in your brain forever. Pain is also emotional. Algebra isn´t that important to us and we let it go, if we aren´t all that into algebra that is. Things we really care about most often stays. Riding a bike was a very important thing for us when we learned it and we were very proud when we finally managed to do it. Do I make any sense?

[@runabath]

Simple answer made complicated

[@QuakePhil]

What is the simple answer?

[@JN-kf3kf]

horrible audio

[@christopherlove7806]

This guy should seriously donate his book in this time of the toilet paper crisis of 2020

[@ImHandlingIt]

How long have you been hurting?

[@crh251]

Look up Dr. John Sarno and Dr. Howard Schubiner. The pain is real. It all comes down to rewiring your brain.

[@larryc506]

@@crh251 true!!!

[@brandonderrick006]

Mazor robotics is laughing at this....

[@larryc506]

Slow down. Talking too fast! Just sayin

[@tencontento9177]

This guy is so full of BS that it's incredible and actually comical.