{"id":483,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-02T16:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:50:07","slug":"surgery-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Surgery or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">2. Removing the painful Substance through Surgery:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In extreme cases, surgeons may have to sever pain pathways by altering areas of the brain associated with pain perception, or performing a rhizotomy (which destroys portions of peripheral nerves) or a chordotomy (destroys ascending tracts in the spinal cord). Usually a last resort.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Surgical interventions can be aimed at eradicating the source of the pain, such as back pain from herniated disks between the vertebrae. An inflamed disc can compress a nerve and cause neuropathic pain.<\/p>\n<p>If the patient does not respond to medications, a surgeon might try to remove at least part of the disc and relieve pressure on the nerve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=484\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>read more &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 229px; height: 289px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/surgery%20cartoon%20for%20hernia.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2. Removing the painful Substance through Surgery: In extreme cases, surgeons may have to sever pain pathways by altering areas of the brain associated with pain perception, or performing a rhizotomy (which destroys portions of peripheral nerves) or a chordotomy (destroys ascending tracts in the spinal cord). Usually a last resort. Surgical interventions can be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9000,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/9000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}