Tiger Woods Arrest and it's Relation to His Back Surgery

A great article published last week explains how Tiger Woods's use of the opiod drug Vicodan for pain following his back surgery in April contributed to his DUI offense.  The article's author Ike Swetlitz, brings up important points regarding back fusion surgery. Ina nutshell, back fusion surgeries are overdone, are frequently not effective, and lead to the use of opiod drugs to manage the pain following them. Here's the link:

https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/01/tiger-woods-spinal-fusion-back-surgery/

Non-surgical treatments of spinal manipulation, massage therapy, traction and decompression, and rehabilitation exercise help most of these problems. We offer these in our office.

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