Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
Believe it or not, there’s actually a name for back surgery that has failed. It’s simply called:
Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
The pain management industry loves to assign names for everything. They take basic stress-based symptoms (back pain) and give them complex names (ankylosing spondylitis) so they can create protocols and bill insurance. And now they’re making a syndrome out of surgical results so that they can justify bad outcomes.
Pretty much all chronic condition treatments fail, or they wouldn’t be chronic now, would they?
But I think it’s even more insidious than just giving their poor performance a name. I think the subliminal message is that it’s your fault. It’s not the doctor’s fault. He told you not to pick up a pillow for 8 weeks. Now look what you’ve done to yourself!
If you’ve had failed back surgery or any failed treatment, you might like John’s new video on the topic. And remember, pretty much all back surgery is failed surgery. Failure is not rare. Failure is the most common outcome by far.
If you’re questioning whether anxiety can cause chronic pain and that you might need surgery instead, watch this video for clarification.
