Chronic pain cause doctors to view you as a drug seeker!!!

See my comments!
 Dr. Oz show and chronic pain.

@ Kris and all others. I see many patients with failed back surgeries and in my opinion they all never needed to have such dangerous procedures. The missing point in all chronic pain issues is the massive most venerable structures in the body and that is muscles, tissues, fascia, ligaments and bursa. Myofascial tissues wreak havoc in chronic pain cases.  I'm positive that all of your doctors see you like they have X-Ray vision as a skeleton and look past the muscle tissues to something fixable in the skeleton. Myofascial pain can not be found with a scan or X-rays, but with palpation with your hand and fingers.

Please read and refer to Janet G Travell, MD text books. If you pain manager or surgeon does not have her books readily available, see another doctor.

Broken bones have a predictable pain cycle and evolution, really bad then by the 6-8 week period no pain. If pain lingers it comes from the stressed myofascial tissues.

In your case, these are the missing points;
1. Myofascial pain is treatable pain, treated with manual therapy as with massage, trigger point injections and acupuncture/GunnIMS.
2. Why are you keep fracturing vertebra??
3. You may have rebound pain from the pain medicine itself.
4. You may have opiate pain medicine hypersensitivity syndrome. The syndrome will magnify your pain to levels greater than max of 10.
5. You may have PTSD from the you plight, which needs to be treated.
6. I would suggest you get some vitamins and magnesium in your system.
7. I would think 3 time before spinal surgery ... I have never seen patients with fusions recover completely. I would never advise any of my patients to have spinal surgery...never!

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The Video 

Here is another brain surgery video of a lady who suffered with facial pain of the dreaded Trigeminal Neuralgia. I cannot agree with this theorized image of the cause and thus the treatment for TN. Arteries are always paired with a nerve in the human body. In anatomy the mnemonic was "VAN" ... a vein next to an artery next to a nerve. So by nature this design is everywhere! So one would expect a similar pain syndrome in other parts of the body ... No! What is missing is these images are the branches of the TN that they pass through and around the facial and jaw muscles. Dr. Travell worked decades designing protocols to treat such facial pain issues by releasing the muscle triggers relieving the compressed nerve and thus the pain. If her treatment plans are employed early in the course of a pain problem, the vast majority of pain misery can be treated and possibly cured!!! No need to open the skull.