Press - Disc Surgery, Back Pain & Neck Pain

dr Michael Schubert attended as one of the world's most important specialists in spinal endoscopy
London's Princess Grace Hospital to introduce its colleagues to the minimally invasive disc surgery technique
to demonstrate live.

The Princess Grace Hospital is thus another stop on the long list of clinics
the dr Michael Schubert visited.

Widespread disease back pain: In Germany alone, 30,000 people are diagnosed with a
Herniated disc operated. "But eight out of ten operations are superfluous," he warns
spine surgeon dr. Michael Schubert from the Apex-Spine Center (www.apex-spine.de) in Munich...

Back pain is one of the most common widespread diseases:
Four out of five adults experience severe back pain at some point in their lives. Too often the ordeal ends on the operating table to be free of pain again, says back specialist Dr. Michael Schubert.

They came without warning, those brutal hip and leg pains that made every step she took a living hell. "First I thought of an inflammation or even arthrosis," says Nicole (53). The doctors groped in the dark for a long time. It was only when the orthopedist also took x-rays of the spine that he discovered the cause: a herniated disc!