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Nearly one in 10 people experience back pain, causing more disability than any other condition in the world—and for many, surgery may be the only option for relief. Up to 40% of patients experience continued pain after surgery, which is often referred to as Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (FBSS).
Are you suffering from symptoms of a failed surgery? Take the first step to finding relief from your pain with our free interactive assessment below, and see how the experts at the Integrated Spine Institute can help.
Although back surgeries are intended to return a patient’s quality of life, some patients may continue to experience pain or limitations in performing daily activities. This continuation of symptoms is known a failed surgery. In general, a failed surgery means persistent or recurring symptoms in anyone who has had previous spinal surgery.
In order to make this diagnosis, an expert from Integrated Spine Institute will review a patient’s treatment history and analyze the type of surgery that was performed. By comparing the records of the patient’s symptoms before and after the surgery, as well as doing a physical exam and looking at all available imaging like MRIs and CT scans, our physicians will be able to determine how successful the previous surgery was and recommend further treatment.
Patients might feel like they got better for a little while, but then start to feel pain again. Or they might feel like their symptoms never got better—or perhaps even got worse than before. Their symptoms might have gone from back pain to leg pain or from leg pain to back pain, or both.
The common uniting symptom is that the patient has had a previous back surgery and is now experiencing the same back pain again, which is holding them back from their daily activities.
If you are experiencing painful symptoms and have had a previous surgery meant to address this pain, you might have had a failed surgery. To learn more, start your diagnosis with our confidential interactive tool below.
The treatment of your back pain will depend heavily on your original condition, the type of surgery that was previously performed, and a proper assessment of why the surgery failed. That’s why it’s so important to meet with an expert surgeon at the Integrated Spine Institute in order to get a complete examination and custom treatment plan for your unique case.
After a careful assessment of your patient history, it’s possible that our physician will recommend non-surgical treatment first. These options could include:
Alternatively, sometimes it is clear to a surgeon, based on imaging and other diagnostic tools, that the source of a patient’s pain can be fixed through a second surgery. If this is the case, one of our experts might recommend a new surgery to address this issue and eliminate your pain.
The type of surgery that will be recommended depends entirely on which one will help the most, but these are the most common surgeries we perform at the Integrated Spine Institute:
Are you suffering from painful symptoms associated with a previous failed surgery and are ready to take the next step toward finding relief? try our interactive treatment finder below to get started on a path forward with the Integrated Spine Institute.
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