[ExtendYourHealth] How You Can Avoid Needless Surgeries

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How You Can Avoid Needless Surgeries

 

These days, surgeries and medications are the solutions readily given

for most problems. Snoring? Cut out excess tissues in the throat.

Overweight? Staple the stomach. Ear infections? Insert tubes in the

ears. Is your child hyper? Give them Ritalin. Feeling anxious or

worrying? Take an antidepressant. The list, and the practice of it,

goes on and on with little regard to other, less invasive options.

 

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There is much media attention given to the overuse of medications by

health care practitioners. What is often left unsaid is that these

same medical professionals are overusing surgery at the same rate,

if not greater, as that of medication.

 

The unnecessary use of surgery has been called an epidemic, one of

barbaric proportions, which needlessly maims and kills patients. Most

have heard the horror stories of doctors mistakenly operating on the

wrong person or body part; mishaps like these are inevitable.

 

However, it is not these types of events that make up the epidemic.

It is the commonly practiced, " routine " surgeries that constitute

the problem. Often times these procedures are not only unnecessary,

but expensive, stressful, and dangerous as well. And, though they

succeed in padding doctor's wallets and raising health care costs,

they often do not solve patients' problems.

 

For example, studies show that many patients who have surgery for

cataracts report that their eyesight is worse after the surgery.

Moreover, reports indicate that as many as five out of six

hysterectomies performed each year are unnecessary. More shocking

still are data suggesting that 50 percent of mastectomies (the

removal of a breast as a treatment for cancer) could have been

prevented by using other treatment options.

 

Other procedures that are consistently performed in excessive numbers

despite other options include gall bladder removal, prostate gland

removal, cataract removal and removal of a damaged disc in the spine;

low-back surgery, surgery for jaw pain and arthroscopic knee surgery;

cesarean section; and total hip replacement.

 

Medical literature has warned that a high percentage of surgeries do

not benefit the patients who receive them. The safeguards in place to

prevent this type of epidemic, namely medical associations that are

supposed to monitor ethics and guidelines, are not doing their job.

So why are all of these surgeries being performed?

 

Knee Surgery

 

Earlier this year, the New England Journal of Medicine published a

study on a knee scooping surgery for arthritis that exposes how 3

billion dollars a year is being wasted on this procedure, which

relieves the problem no more than a placebo.

 

The operation, known as arthroscopic surgery, for pain and stiffness

caused by osteoarthritis is performed on about 650,000 people in the

U.S. every year, at a cost of about $5,000 per procedure.

 

As mentioned above, studies show that placebos had the same affect as

the surgery, and placebos are a lot cheaper than $5,000 operations.

So what other options are there?

 

It is important to recognize that while the arthritis scooping did

work for many people, so did the placebo. This is amazing testimony

to the power your brain has at inducing healing changes in your

body. The central question is how to harness this power without

expensive medications or dangerous surgery.

 

Remember that whatever you focus your conscious attention on in the

real world will typically be achieved. That is precisely what

happened with this study. The patients truly believed that this

expensive, invasive procedure would fix their problem, and

superficially it appeared to do just that. The same thing happened,

though, with those who received the placebo -- a placebo unknown to

them, of course. What really healed their bodies were their OWN

MINDS!

 

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- BRYAN & PAM CRABTREE

Fayetteville, NC

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