Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery

She met with many patients whose pain and desperation led them to make life-altering decisions and with others who triumphed over their limitations. But her discomfort only intensified, leaving her feeling frustrated and perplexed. Ramin shatters assumptions about surgery, chiropractic methods, physical therapy, spinal injections, and painkillers and addresses evidence-based rehabilitation options - showing, in detail, how to avoid therapeutic dead ends while saving money, time, and considerable anguish. The result is a brilliant and comprehensive book that is not only important but essential to millions of back pain sufferers and all types of health-care professionals. The result of six years of intensive investigation, Crooked offers a startling look at the poorly identified risks of spine medicine and provides practical advice and solutions. Ramin interviewed scores of spine surgeons, pain management doctors, physical medicine and rehabilit

"this is a MUST read so that you can avoid the cascade of evaluations and treatments that are unlikely to help and often cause gr" according to Brian W. Nelson. Lets start with the most important aspect of this book. If you suffer from back or neck pain, this is a MUST read so that you can avoid the cascade of evaluations and treatments that are unlikely to help and often cause great harm (not to mention the enormous and unnecessary expense)My name I Brian Nelson. I am an orthopedic surgeon specializing in spine and I am quoted extensively in this tour de force. I first met Cathryn many years ago after she was given my name by a colleague. She called me for the first of many inter. Excellent But Needs Another Chapter RedDevilMutt After hearing Cathryn Ramin on NPR, I ordered her book because a neurosurgeon said that my only realistic option for my lower back pain was “fusion with instrumentation”. Although I highly recommend the book, I wish it had a chapter discussing what type of surgery might be appropriate and under what circumstances. She does give a few nods to surgery, as on page 105, but overall, she is quite strident in her opposition to surgery. Given her extensive research on all the surgery that’s not needed, ineffecti. First step in a path to recovery Giora Sagy Great resource for anybody who has back issues, wants to identify the right approach to improve their health (related to their back) or is trying to understand the dynamics of the different players in treating back pain and back issues. Our back is one of our most complex part of our body and unfortunately identifying how to “fix” it and to deal with the extreme pain associated with it is extremely challenging. Cathryn provides an in depth analysis at multiple levels which I found very useful. It will allow me