Why you should avoid back surgery after an MRI

If a decision for back surgery based on an MRI or similar scan, it’s probably finding a “problem” that’s actually quite normal.

About 25 percent of people who get back scans have herniated discs. And, as many as 60 percent of healthy adults with no back pain, based on evidence so far, have degenerative spinal changes.

And, while the issue of “lying MRIs” is most closely related to back pain, there’s plenty a knee operation guided by an MRI that didn’t treat the actual cause of knee pain.

Why?

Doctors, clinics and patients alike all are lustful for technology. And accept it too uncritically.