01/30/2024
Is Your Back in Pain?
Before Surgery, Do Your Homework...Physical Therapy Could Be Your Answer!
by Dr. Sokunthea "Sukie" Nau, DPT/Owner
Nau Physical Therapy and Wellness
8509 S US Highway 1
Port Saint Lucie, FL 34952
Phone: (772) 380-4549
Fax: (772) 210-8920
www.nauptwellness.com
Is your back out of sorts? Aches and pains nagging at your every move?
Maybe a surgeon told you that you need surgery. But maybe you don’t.
Before you get surgery, see us! Surgeons recommend surgery. To a hammer, the world is a nail! But 3 out of 4 back surgeries have failed outcomes. People don’t get better, they get worse.
Americans spend about $86 billion a year on backaches. That’s on par with what people outlay for cancer treatment.
In the U.S. more than 1,150,000 people go under the knife every year. That’s a rate double that of most developed countries yet the outcomes have been no better. Only about 5% of patients with back pain need surgery.
Back pain is the most common pain we see.
Most back pain is caused by our lifestyle. We sit a lot and create muscle tightening. People overcompensate and that causes compression and more muscle tightening creating herniated discs, lumbar pain, etc.
There is more of a tendency to get certain types of back pain between the ages of 19 & 35. There are more herniated discs which means more liquid, whereas at ages 65 and above, there is more stenosis, or discs are drying out. These issues are too complicated for surgery to help.
Before you get back surgery, try physical therapy. Physical therapy includes soft tissue work, joint manipulation, and fascia. We look at the cause of lower back pain which includes tight and weak muscles. We use acupressure which is a hands-on type of work. There’s also spinal manipulation.
So as I like to say, ‘To the hammer, the world is a nail’. Remember that when you speak to a surgeon, that is what they will recommend. Please take some time to think, and try a non-surgical method to relieve your back pain. Physical therapy is just such a method. It is less painful, and much less expensive.
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Sokunthea "Sukie" Nau, DPT/Owner
Nau Physical Therapy and Wellness
8509 S US Highway 1
Port Saint Lucie, FL 34952
Phone: (772) 380-4549
Fax: (772) 210-8920
www.nauptwellness.com
Sukie has been practicing physical therapy since 2007 with a special interest in the biomechanics of human performance. He earned his Bachelor of Health Science with a concentration in Rehabilitative Services, Minor in Sociology and Minor in Education from the University of Florida in 2004. He later finished his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Saint Augustine with a concentration in Orthopedics in 2007.
Nau Physical Therapy & Wellness specializes in orthopedics, neck pain and back pain as well as a pre-surgery check to see if physical therapy will correct your situation without surgery.
“Before your surgery, see us!” Surgeons recommend surgery. “To a hammer, the world is a nail!”-Suki Nau
Is Your Back in Pain?
Before Surgery, Do Your Homework...Physical Therapy Could Be Your Answer!
by Dr. Sokunthea "Sukie" Nau, DPT/Owner
Nau Physical Therapy and Wellness
8509 S US Highway 1
Port Saint Lucie, FL 34952
Phone: (772) 380-4549
Fax: (772) 210-8920
www.nauptwellness.com
Is your back out of sorts? Aches and pains nagging at your every move?
Maybe a surgeon told you that you need surgery. But maybe you don’t.
Before you get surgery, see us! Surgeons recommend surgery. To a hammer, the world is a nail! But 3 out of 4 back surgeries have failed outcomes. People don’t get better, they get worse.
Americans spend about $86 billion a year on backaches. That’s on par with what people outlay for cancer treatment.
In the U.S. more than 1,150,000 people go under the knife every year. That’s a rate double that of most developed countries yet the outcomes have been no better. Only about 5% of patients with back pain need surgery.
Back pain is the most common pain we see.
Most back pain is caused by our lifestyle. We sit a lot and create muscle tightening. People overcompensate and that causes compression and more muscle tightening creating herniated discs, lumbar pain, etc.
There is more of a tendency to get certain types of back pain between the ages of 19 & 35. There are more herniated discs which means more liquid, whereas at ages 65 and above, there is more stenosis, or discs are drying out. These issues are too complicated for surgery to help.
Before you get back surgery, try physical therapy. Physical therapy includes soft tissue work, joint manipulation, and fascia. We look at the cause of lower back pain which includes tight and weak muscles. We use acupressure which is a hands-on type of work. There’s also spinal manipulation.
So as I like to say, ‘To the hammer, the world is a nail’. Remember that when you speak to a surgeon, that is what they will recommend. Please take some time to think, and try a non-surgical method to relieve your back pain. Physical therapy is just such a method. It is less painful, and much less expensive.
# # #
Sokunthea "Sukie" Nau, DPT/Owner
Nau Physical Therapy and Wellness
8509 S US Highway 1
Port Saint Lucie, FL 34952
Phone: (772) 380-4549
Fax: (772) 210-8920
www.nauptwellness.com
Sukie has been practicing physical therapy since 2007 with a special interest in the biomechanics of human performance. He earned his Bachelor of Health Science with a concentration in Rehabilitative Services, Minor in Sociology and Minor in Education from the University of Florida in 2004. He later finished his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Saint Augustine with a concentration in Orthopedics in 2007.
Nau Physical Therapy & Wellness specializes in orthopedics, neck pain and back pain as well as a pre-surgery check to see if physical therapy will correct your situation without surgery.
“Before your surgery, see us!” Surgeons recommend surgery. “To a hammer, the world is a nail!”-Dr. Sukie Nau
