SAY NO TO SPINE SURGERY; An Indian study supersedes US study

[Guest guest]

The Editor,

Indian Express

Sir,

Say no to spinal surgery:

This refers to the most controversial topic of

surgical operations in case of ruptured disks in the

lower back where opinions of various expert

orthopedics often differ. The latest study published

in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA)

and reported in the New York Times (IE, Pune, Nov. 24)

has made confusion worse confounded.

The two-year study comparing surgery with those who

did not undergo the operation, found out both the

groups reported marked improvement in their symptoms

in nearly 2000 patients. With such a finding, the

patients having agonizing sciatica pains do not know

what to do, whether to wait and bear the pain or go

for surgery.

Dr. Steven R Garfin, Chairman of the department of

orthopedic surgery at the University of California,

San Diego says, “You don’t have to rush in for

surgery. Time is usually your ally, not your enemy”.

 

In India, the Nature Cure and Spinal Rehabilitation

Centre (NCSRC), Pune has studied not 2,000 but 20,000

cases of ruptured-disks, not in a short time of two

years as in case of the US study published in JAMA,

but for 20 years. Almost all the patients got well

within a short time of a week or two, sometimes, even

instantaneously by doing the exercises that pull back

the sciatica nerves to their original position

releasing the pressure on the nerves.

 

This writer who happens to be the Founder Director of

the NCSRC had even demonstrated this method of

releasing the pressure on the sciatica nerves at a

demo-cum-cure session at Long Island, New York in June

2004 and the patient had reported immediate relief

from her sciatica pain. These yoga-type nature-cure

exercises were also demonstrated at similar camps held

at Staten Island and many places in New Jersey with

similar results. One of the patients from Manhattan

had even made a short video film of the exercises and

had sent it to his father who lives in California as

his Father’s Day gift, wishing him happier and

healthier life during his evening years.

 

Spinal surgery is very costly as well as risky. Most

of the patients who came for second opinion to the

NCSRC were cured to enjoy normal life sans any

complications or the pain without surgery.

 

Hence it is necessary to broadcast these findings

worldwide so that no one goes for the highly invasive

procedure of spine surgeries unless the nature-cure

exercises fail. But so far, they have not failed, a

lesson that should be learnt by all spinal surgeons

who are ever ready with their scalpels. Needless to

mention, in US alone, nearly 20 billion dollars are

spent annually on spinal surgeries with such doubtful

results. For more info, please visit www.atbsnr.com.

 

S. M. Acharya,

Founder Director, NCSRC,

155 St. Patrick’s Town, Pune – 411013, Ph:

91-20-26870204.