STOP HARMFUL SURGERY BACK PAIN

Dr. Paul Altrocchi is a graduate of Harvard University Harvard Medical School and Columbia University's New York Neurological Institute. A former full-time Professor of Neurology at Stanford Medical School he was voted best clinical teacher in two departments. Later longtime Head of the Palo Alto Medical Clinic's Neurology Department he completed his career in private practice in Central Oregon.Despite superb training Dr. Altrocchi was stunned by his terrible treatment-results in low back pain patients using standard MD approaches. He stopped consulting and teaching on lumbar back pain after1. That the MD way of looking at low back pain is more than 90% wrong.2. That back pain is not primarily a surgical problem caused by degenerating discs and osteoarthritic bony changes.3. That surgical treatment of back pain does more harm than good except in documented cases of a herniated disc compressing a nerve which represents only 5% of cases of lumbar back pain.4. That most back pain has a mechanical cause completely misunderstood and denied by MDsSearching the world for the best approach to low back pain he finally discovered the brilliantly logical diagnostic and manual medicine treatment methods of Michigan State College of Osteopathic Medicine's superb faculty. Using their eminently sensible rational techniques with thousands of low back pain patients led to vastly superior treatment results without high tech high cost work-ups and without the frequent failed surgeries of the standard MD approach which in millions of patients have led to chronic back pain disability and human tragedy.