what is significance of board certified surgeon. Selected surgeon from very renowned spine ctr. dr not bdcert?
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usually the doctor has graduated from an accredited medical school and has completed at least five years of additional training as a resident surgeon. This includes a minimum three-year residency in an accredited general surgery program and a minimum two-year residency\n\nTo become certified, the doctor then must successfully complete comprehensive written and oral exams. Board Certification is a voluntary process.
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Urologist are surgeons.
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See Dr. Jeff Kozak at Texas Orthopedic Hospital in Houston, TX.  He is a reconstructive spine specialist and has operated and lectured all over the world. Great man. Just a regular guy.... but brilliant.
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I would suggest you ask your doctor for a referral.  However, here is one listing for you:\n\nMarc A. Weinstein MD\n\nThe Center for Spinal Disorders\nat the Florida Orthopaedic Institute\nTampa Florida 33637\nOrthopedic Surgeon\nTel: (813) 978-9700\n\nDr. Marc Weinstein is a Orthopedic Surgeon located in Tampa, Florida specializing in Degenerative Spine, Spinal Deformity, Trauma, Tumor-Infection, and/or spine, neck and back surgery and treatment.
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That means Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. He's an osteopath, which is one of several "alternative" forms of medical practice. The conventional doctor (an MD) is an allopath...a doctor of allopathic medicine.\n\nThe American Academy of Osteopathy's position is that they are not "alternative," but many allopaths disagree.\n\nThat said, you can find DOs just about anyplace you find MDs, and they are increasingly indistinguishable. ERs have 'em, and so do many specialty practices. I've encountered a bunch of them as a paramedic, and they're good docs.\n\nThe main idea behind osteopathy is a focus on an entire person, rather than individual symptoms, and an emphasis on "manipulation," mostly of joints, as a way to heal.\n\nFrom the Academy's website:\n\n"DOs use what is called osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT). OMT is a technique in which the DOs use their hands to diagnose injury and illness, giving special attention to the joints, bones, muscles, and nerves. Manipulations improve circulation, which in turn, creates a normal nerve and blood supply, enabling the body to heal itself."
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Hi Mary,\nThat's a rough surgery. As an x-ray tech I've seen a lot of cervical fusions. Like every other kind of surgery, some people due well and some don't. And let me tell ya, if you have a surgeon who is suggesting a c6-c7 fusion, he or she is thinking that's the only thing left to do. Because surgeons do not take cervical surgeries lightly. So if you have faith in you surgeon, you might listen to him. Or you can get a second opinion. That's good too.\nOf course I'm not a doc, so see as many of them as you need to to feel comfortable with your decision. Good luck!
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I dont have the answer but wanted to reply because i too am scheduled for this surgery.\nI know many that have had this surgery and they all swear by it--they can now walk and are pain free.\n\nIt is however--a must to do the therapy afterwards in order for success.\nRecovery is long but worth it--I have been told.
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Two of my patients have got spinal surgery in India.One was treated for spondylolistheis by spinal fusion and the other for disc replacement.Both of them are very happy with the results.Their pain and other symptoms due to nerve compression have totally gone.\n\nSpinal Surgery is very cheap in India.There is one company that is very famous in India that arranges spine surgery for foreigners in India.They are called the Forerunners Healthcare.I read a lot about them in the Newspapers and about their patient stories.I have also read that they arrange financing for american and canadian patients as spine surgery is not covered by insurance.They also have photos pasted of their International patients.You can checkout their website.\n\nThe cost savings are incredible.As a doctor i personally believe that your spine surgery can be easily handled in India as the quality of healthcare available here is simply best in the world.The surgeons are USA/UK trained and facilities are 5 star.both my patients had gone to India through the forerunners healthcare company.i strongly recommend you to talk to this company,checkout your options with surgery from them.\n\nhttp://www.forerunnershealthcare.com
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The chiropractic spinal adjustment is a vague entity. I have a chiropractic doctorate but I am abivalent about the value of this  profession. I find so many of my patients coming from other chiropractors with so many odd explanations for and violent methods of care, honestly I am often embarrased to be considered a chiropractor. Still, at it's heart chiropractic is the best model of healing I know of, and I am quite proud of what I do and the results I get. I've saved countless people from pain and spinal surgery, and helped others heal considerable 'incurable' issues. \n\nChiropractic is very unstandardized, so every chiropractor will offer something different. Basically most chiropractors over simplify their practices and model what they do as unblocking the nerves that come out of the spine. This is very rare that a nerve is so blocked or pinched that it is 'squeezed' coming out of the spine. What is really going on is that information the nervous system is picking up and relaying to the brain is getting 'jammed' and lost in the jumble of the body's functions and general stress levels. Most people have bones out of 'alignment' not by way of trauma (like car accidents), but by way of being overwelmed by metabolic stress (ex: too much sugar, not enough minerals, extreme mental stress) and the these 'misalignments' act as temporary 'fuse breakers'. The problem is that after these stresses reduce, the spinal 'fuse' stays switched off and the person maintains a physiology of high level stress no matter what goes on, how they eat, rest, etc.\n\nGood chiropractic spinal adjustments actually increase communication from the periphery into the brain so the brain can then create better signals through the outgoing nervous system. The chiropractors who can do this are like gold, because they not only activate very efficient healing states on a physical level - but they also allow sensations assiciated with food choices, emotional needs, mental ideas and repressed body/mind issues come to full consciousness. As it was explained to be Donald Epstein, in my opinion the greatest living chiropractor, chiropractic began as a 'consciousness delivery system' - not unlike Christian Science.\n\nDonald Epstein has developed 'Network Spinal Analysis' and the chiropractors who study this are the only chiropractors I welcome to adjust my spine.\n\nAnd a word for people who are encouraged to be manipulated or 'adjusted' two or three times a week in high volume models of practice - research suggests there is no value to this kind of over treatment. Network care though (which involves gentle touch at specific spinal points, not forcible cracking, manipulation or so called 'adjustment') delivered two or three times a week has blown the doors off researchers, and if your chiropractor wants to sell you a large multi-visit plan, ask him or her to either prove it's value or offer you Network care.\n\nIf you sufer from pain syndromes of the spine or need car accident rehabillitation, I do recommend you consider chiropractors who offer specialized care in these areas, as chiropractors who combine manipulation and physical therapy are often very effective for chronic pain and accident trauma.
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You can use the services of "Best Doctors". Have a look:\n\nhttp://www.bestdoctors.com/bd/bdamerica.htm
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If you want to know the truth behind chiropractic care and chiropractors, then check out the following links.\n\nhttp://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/chirosub.html\nhttp://www.chirobase.org/01General/chirosham.html\nhttp://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.656/healthissue_detail.asp\nhttp://www.chirobase.org/01General/skeptic.html\nhttp://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/chiroasst.html\nhttp://www.chirobase.org/06DD/chirovet.html\n\nAlso, chiropractors state that research has justified their techniques, check out the following;\n\nDuring the past few years, two reports about the treatment of low-back pain have placed chiropractic in a favorable light. One, issued by the RAND Corporation, concluded that spinal manipulation was appropriate for some cases of low-back pain. The other, produced by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), judged manipulation useful for controlling symptoms while awaiting the spontaneous recovery that occurs within a month in most patients with low-back problems.\nAlthough chiropractors have promoted these reports as endorsements of chiropractic, they are not. They merely support the use of manipulation in carefully selected patients. Only a few of the research studies on which their conclusions were based involved manipulation by chiropractors; most were done by medical doctors and physical therapists whose practices are not identical to those of chiropractors. Most chiropractors manipulate the vast majority of patients who walk through their door, some use techniques that have not been studied scientifically, and many urge all of their patients to undergo monthly or even weekly "preventive maintenance" visits throughout their life. In addition, many chiropractors emphasize a technique that is more vigorous (and therefore less safe) than the controlled manipulation used by other practitioners. The only places where "chiropractic" and "chiropractors" are mentioned in the body of the AHCPR report are in the passages about the make-up of the AHCPR expert panel.
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Medicinæ Baccalaureus & Baccalaureus Chirurgiæ (MB BChir or MB ChB or MBBS or variations thereof) are the two degrees awarded after a course in medicine and surgery at a university in the United Kingdom and other places following the British tradition, such as Australian,New Zealand, Jamaican, and Indian medical schools. In theory they are two separate degrees, but in practice the two are usually treated as one. The degrees are the British equivalent of the M.D.
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Never heard of anything like this in my practice before.  If you haven't already, see your OB.  If he/she doesn't know what it is then see a spine specialist.  Good luck.
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Hey Jayk Patel the surgeon is able to cut you and remove problems from beneath the skin under the knife the physician can not it is not in his scope he can only inform prescribe and nurse you back to health and refer surgery if necessary
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I take a slightly different stand than the previous response, seeings how I work in surgery, and we see a LOT of back/spine surgeries each week. There are even a few people that I work with who have had them, and they all seem satisfied. First of all, I would check out the surgeon, see what type of surgery he or she specializes in and how long they have been doing them. Next, be sure you know what type, ie lumbar, cervical vertebrae, etc are going to be worked on, and then I can give you more info :)
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really, you would have to be in training to interpret it.  i am in med school and have had anatomy and have taken an elective in reading mri and ct's and i wouldn't trust myself to read them.  either try to bump your appointment up or do whatever you can to not think about it until then.
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I am a Doctor of Naturopathy. I had to get my doctorate in Naturopathy before practicing. And take the boards. So I do have proof. You can't just go out and get a job in that field.