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Last Year 250 ,000 Back Surgeries Were Performed.
Less Than 10% Were Necessary.
Dear Spine Specialist:
Lower back pain struck five and a half million people last year.

For a long time, surgery seemed the only answer. But the results were inconsistent. To make matters more confusing, there was no such thing as a uniform diagnostic approach. Techniques and procedures differed from medical center to medical center; and from doctor to doctor. The problem grew not from lack of skill but from lack of focus. Diagnosing and treating spine problems is a long, frustrating endeavor, too often relegated to guesswork and theory. That is why we are here. The San Francisco Spine Institute is a non-profit organization, located at Seton Medical Center, Daly City, California. Incorporated iJ December, 1987, our mandate is the advancement of diagnostic and therapeutic treatments as well as the prevention of spine, bone and joint injury through researd and education. In fact, you've already read the results of one of our studies at the top of this page-demonstrating that surgery is often unnecessary. 1 I Jcffrey A. Saal, M.D. 1St Joel S. Saal, M.D., Non-Operative Treatment of Herniated Lumb:lr IntC'Tvertt:bral Disc \\;th R:ldiculoD:lthy: An Outcome Study, Spine, Vol. 14 No.4, April, 1989

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