It would be useful to develop a future trial to evaluate patients who undergo surgery, but who do not receive standard physical therapy, but rather a home based program of exercises.
Losing weight and the method you choose to do it is a personal choice, but for me, surgery was the answer.
In fact, Hunt said, mixed martial arts guidelines don't require a sex-change surgery, but they do require two years of hormone therapy for transgender fighters.
If a back surgery increases rather than alleviates pain, do the cost-cutters out there really think that surgeons are going to deliberately maim patients?
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In my experience, I find that most patients request surgery, and often do not choose to invest in a long term physical therapy program when faced with the options.
Do you know a breast cancer survivor who chose for or against reconstructive breast surgery?
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The rest have to make do with a quick swipe across the knee with a scalpel, to mimic a surgery scar.
The first podiatrist Ms. Ngo saw advised against surgery, saying she should only do it if she suffered from a lot of pain, not for cosmetic reasons.
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When Jane Nichols had surgery to remove a large tumor from her colon in 1999, she vowed to do everything possible to stop the cancer from coming back.
"Those who diagnose breast cancer and those who do mastectomy are separate from the plastic surgeons who do the reconstruction, " explains Dr. Frank DellaCroce, a surgeon at the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery in New Orleans, Louisiana, the place where Anderson's breast reconstruction was performed.
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