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Please do not have surgery before investigating
our methods and discussing your case
with us!
X-Ray Showing broken Harrington Rod
Scoliosis
Surgery: the Untold Truth
Scoliosis
Correction questions?
Email:
ScoliosisCorrection@gmail.com
or
Call
Dr. Hersh: 860-727-8820
or 860-524-8955
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The Value of Scoliosis Care
Scientific
studies have confirmed that there is a direct
correlation between a patient's perception of their
health as measured by a health questionnaire, their
mortality rate, and the severity of their scoliosis.
In other words, the larger the degree of curvature,
the more the scoliosis impacts your overall health and
well-being, and reduces your lifespan.
Obviously,
every degree of correction counts! But what is the
real cost, per degree? Let's take a moment to
examine the value of various methods of scoliosis
treatment as applied to a hypothetical patient with a 50
degree Cobb angle.
Harrington
Rod Surgery: At a cost of roughly $120,000, the
surgeon performing the operation will aim to reduce the
curvature by roughly 50%. So the cost involved would be
$4,800 per degree of correction, and the correction
achieved has been shown to be temporary. Curves will
continue to worsen after surgery, by about one degree
per year.
Typical
Chiropractic Care for scoliosis: In one study, participants
averaged 1.4 degrees of correction after one year of
"standard" chiropractic care. If one year of
non-intensive chiropractic care is roughly $10,000, then
this works out to about $10,000 per degree of
correction... not to mention the time investment!
Scoliosis Bracing:
This is a trick question - bracing will never reduce the
severity of scoliosis, and whether or not it even stops
progression is heavily debated amongst orthopedic
surgeons. But for our purposes, the value of bracing
cannot be determined, because it is impossible to divide
any cost by zero.
Clear-certified Correction of scoliosis: Two weeks of intensive
care at a CLEAR-certified clinic, the Scoliosis
Correction Center in Hartford can range from
approximately $2500 per week to comprehensive care for
the year at approximately $10,200. Assuming the patient
achieves results exactly equal to our average amount of
correction, 62% of their scoliosis would be corrected
after treatment (from 50 degrees down to 19).
Value: $329 per degree of correction, or one-fourteenth
(7%) of the price per degree of correction when compared
to surgery.
Bottom Line:
Our method of scoliosis correction is both non-invasive
and significantly less expensive than traditional
treatments.
A Recent Email To US
Hi, I am doing a project on scoliosis for school, and not to long ago my cousin had surgery to correct her scoliosis and she became paralyzed from the waist down. And i was just wondering if you know of anything that can lessen the chance of becoming paralyzed during surgery? Thanks!
~Anonymous
The success of
our scoliosis treatment, warrants a serious investigation prior to
allowing any invasive procedure to be performed on
yourself or a loved one.
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