Disc Shmisc: A More Accurate Model Of Back Pain

It's not a question, it's a conclusion in medical literature - there is no correlation between discs and back pain. Doctors all know this, yet with nothing better to replace it with, it remains the diagnosis of the day, handed out as fact, but it is not a fact.The source of pain so often attributed to discs and joints is actually caused by muscles, we just haven't been treating them correctly. Disc Shmisc establishes historic tenets for treating soft tissue that yield the entire purpose of orthopedic-neurological examination. In the process of fixing chronic conditions variously diagnosed as a disc, arthritis, stenosis, etc., we get the holy grail, entire purpose of orthopedic-neurological examination - which is to recreate the familiar pain the patient has been suffering. To hear the patient say, "That's it. That's my problem." This is what doctors have been looking for in examination and tests like discography - yet do not find. Current diagnoses are merely an attempt to account for symptoms. This is a watershed moment in spine medicine.