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Unnecessary Spinal Surgery Will Waste Billions of Dollars in 2009 and Patients Will Continue to Suffer Unless the Primary Cause of Most Back Pain is Treated, Says Pain Specialist Norman Marcus, M.D.
Date:1/6/2009

and headaches, says Dr. Marcus, who has found muscle involvement in over 75 percent of the more than 10,000 pain patients he has treated.

With the assistance of New Jersey's Stevens Institute of Technology, Dr. Marcus has developed a muscle pain detection instrument that enables physicians to identify and then treat the specific muscle (or muscles) causing low back, shoulder or neck pain. The device is considered revolutionary because it provides a standardized method for accurately diagnosing muscle pain.

The clear superiority of the instrument in detecting the muscles that may be contributing to back pain was demonstrated in a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial at the NYU School of Medicine and will be presented January 28-31 at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 25th annual meeting, in Honolulu.

After his device identifies the muscle (or muscles) among the 25 or more muscles that could be causing the patient's pain, his treatment includes a program of simple exercises and, when indicated, injections that soften the muscles and make them flexible -- and pain free.

Dr. Marcus believes that a large percent of all spinal surgeries are unnecessary (spinal fusions are being performed as many as 20 times more often in some parts of the United States as in others) and finds it "disturbing" that the number continues to grow yearly.

An estimated 1.2 million spinal surgeries are performed in the U.S. each year, and, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, more than 300,000 of them are spinal fusions, at an average cost of approximately $60,000 each.

And the spinal products industry is experiencing meteoric growth. Worldwide sales went from less than $100 million in 1990 to $3.5 billion in 2004 and more than $6 billion in 2007.

Recent studies show that the failure rate for back surgeries is extremely high (50% in some
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