Journal of Spine

Moving Away from Fusion by Treating the Pain Generator: The Secrets of an Endoscopic Master

Abstract

Anthony T. Yeung

Chronic back pain afflicts hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The most common early cause is deterioration of the intervertebral disc from trauma or aging. Current Therapies to treat back pain from nonsurgical techniques: ie. Physical medicine + pain management, and oral analgesics, are followed by various techniques of MIS and traditional disc surgery, but PREMATURELY ending in fusion.