Credible data documents that the care of musculoskeletal pain, including low back (LBP) and neck pain (NP), has been worsening with more people suffering from chronic pain, more drugs being dispensed, more injections, and unnecessary surgeries. The results are not positive. With current conventional treatment, we have more people with disabilities and spiraling healthcare costs. Today, there is equally credible data that documents that a highly innovative clinical assessment identifies characteristics of each patient’s condition that also identifies standardized, predictably-effective self-treatment that produces rapid, easy, risk-free, inexpensive recoveries for 80-90% of patients. This session will explain the evidence and assist patient advocates and consumers in understanding better options when dealing with acute and chronic LBP and NP.
Ronald Donelson, MD, MS, DipMDT, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who specializes in and has researched non-operative spine care for 30 years. He is Founder/President of SelfCare First, an organization that seeks to globally improve the value of spinal/musculoskeletal care. Dr. Donelson has published numerous research studies, chapters, review articles, and two books on the topic: “Rapidly Reversible Low Back Pain: An Evidence-Based Pathway to Widespread Recoveries and Cost Saving” and “Solving the Mystery: The Key to Rapid Recoveries for Most Back and Neck Pain”
