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What Makes The SpineZone Unique? - Dr. Kam Raiszadeh (VIDEO)

Dr. Raiszadeh shares what makes the SpineZone at Alvarado Hospital unique.

Dr. Raiszadeh:
The SpineZone is unique, in that it allows focus strengthening of the spine by machines that target the strength into the muscles that are these stabilizers. There are a few very, very important muscles in the spine that allow stability to occur, and it’s very hard to strengthen those muscles in standard methods that you have, let’s say in yoga or Pilates or standard core exercises in a gym.

What we do with SpineZone is to be able to get the specialized machines along with therapists who are trained only in strengthening and stabilization of the spine to focus on those muscles. Now what’s been the benefit? The benefit is that you have a lot of patients who would be surgical candidates and who have been told by multiple physicians that they are surgical candidates and whose quality of life is markedly impacted, who can with this system avoid surgery and have been able to do it for a long period of time. So it’s a phenomenal addition to a full spine interdisciplinary program.

Avoiding surgery is a definite goal because the body has its own incredible mechanisms for stabilizing itself. There are a lot of reparative mechanisms set into the body that all we need to do is tap into those. If we tap into those with the right methods, most people will not need surgery.

Back pain and issues like sciatica are so common; 60 to 80 percent of the population has one bout of very severe back pain and/or sciatica throughout their lifetime. That doesn’t mean everybody needs surgery. That doesn’t mean that there is a fix-it for everything.

The fix-it a lot of times does take effort. There is not going to be one quick adjustment or one quick injection that fixes it. A lot of times it’s regaining that function that we have lost because we have been sitting too much or we have been less active or we have allowed our muscles and our normal reparative capacity to slide.

About Dr. Raiszadeh, M.D.:
Kam Raiszadeh, MD, serves as medical director of the Advanced Spine Institute & Minimally Invasive Spine Center at Alvarado Hospital. Dr. Raiszadeh is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and an active member of the Scoliosis Research Society and North American Spine Society.

For More Information On Back Conditions And The Advanced Spine Institute Visit Advanced Spine Institute & Minimally Invasive Spine Center At Alvarado Hospital.

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