Opioid-free Spine Surgery

As patients know, my philosophy is always look at the patient as a whole, not just focus on the spine. And I do believe in holistic, homeopathic, what I call integrative functional approach, where for quite some time now, I would say probably over 90 of my patients who’ve had spine surgery, and I’m talking major scoliosis operation, without giving him a narcotic.

And guess what? Since I’ve been doing the non-narcotic, patients have less pain than before when they were getting narcotics, and their recovery is much faster. They don’t have fogginess, they don’t have stomach issues, they don’t have the constipation issues, and the pain gets less, recover faster, heal faster, because we’re not disrupting the gut as much. These narcotics really destroy one’s guts.

So I feel this non-narcotic approach is the way to go with any surgery, and this is something we can achieve in the United States.