Back pain: It often goes better without surgery

Severe back pain clouds your mind after a while. After a long ordeal, many people therefore resort to the last resort - an operation on the intervertebral disc. "But eight out of ten operations are superfluous," warns the renowned spinal surgeon Dr. Michael Schubert from Munich. In his opinion, in many cases herniated discs can be treated without surgery.

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