Catherine Raymond
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first heard Jun 2018
last heard Jun 2018
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You can never consider surgery as your best option.
It is never your best option because an intact spine is always better than a surgically altered spine.
My name is Katherine Jacobson-Raymond, and I am the author of Crooked, Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery, which was published by HarperCollins in May of 2017.
The very title itself, The Back Industry, why is
Well, you know, I didn't think it was an industry when I got started on this and I got started on it as a patient because I had been dealing with back pain since the time I was about 16 years old.
And by the time I finished my first book, I was in so much agony that I could not envision how I would write a second one without really taking serious steps.
So as I went through that process, and it took a while, I started to realize that so much of what I was seeing and hearing, there was no good scientific evidence base for.
It was an industry because it existed to make money.
The first time that I sat myself down in a surgeon's office, I looked around and I noticed that there were people all over the reception area.
Every chair was full.
There were people leaning against walls.
There were people sitting on the floor.
And so I really recognized that money was being made here big time.
And that was just the beginning.
I started to look at what was being done in terms of interventional pain management, i.e.
injections.
And those were given widely in the U.S., injections of cortisone.
And there was no evidence base for that.
And then I started looking at spinal fusion and same thing.
Then I started looking at something that I noticed is getting rather hot in a
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