People with pain originating in the spine are often left to their own devices. The information available on their condition is extensive and many treatment options are offered, but their effectiveness is not always sufficiently proven. Often, even proven specialists have different opinions on the same problem. And it is not uncommon for the proposed surgical technique for an operation to vary from surgeon to surgeon. This alone leads to considerable uncertainty on the part of those affected. 

In addition, they are supplied from all sides with well-intentioned but unfiltered information about their disease and are ultimately unable to classify it correctly. The understandable consequence is anxiety and the risk of making the wrong decision. Such a decision often marks the beginning of the classic spiral of unhappiness with chronic disabling pain and the corresponding social consequences for those affected and their relatives.

Thanks to Spinasana, patients should be saved from wrong and especially useless surgery on the back. There is a massive oversupply of surgically oriented spine centers, where too much and also often too fierce surgery with screws and long rods is performed. In this context, the 2016 announcement of the German Barmer health insurance company is very impressive that about half of the back patients who requested a second opinion refrained from spine surgery.
In contrast to other disciplines such as cardiac surgery, orthopedics, etc., no clearly defined indication criteria and certainly no uniform surgical techniques are applied in spinal surgery to date. Switzerland is far from having a treatment registry that would present the results beyond doubt. The second opinion can be obtained either directly from the Spinasana doctor in the practice or online on the Spinasana platform.