Back Pain, Disc Health, and the New Science of Spinal Care with Dr. Amir Vokshoor
Commune with Jeff Krasno
Commune Media
4.5 • 673 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We know back pain is one of the most devastating disabling conditions affecting the entire world. |
| 0:05.0 | These people were not thinking it. |
| 0:07.0 | They were told a lot of times that, oh, it's just chronic pain, it's in your head, you have to get therapy. |
| 0:12.0 | And they get therapy and it doesn't work. |
| 0:14.0 | And then they get 20 different injections and it doesn't work. |
| 0:18.0 | I kind of set out to say, okay, which part of this is anatomical, structural, |
| 0:22.2 | and which part is psychological. Dr. Amir Vokeshore, board-certified spine surgeon and disc health |
| 0:28.8 | expert, former chief of spine surgery at Providence St. John's. In this episode of the Commune |
| 0:34.3 | podcast, we discuss why spinal discs fail, how modern life |
| 0:39.0 | may be accelerating spinal degeneration, and why chronic back pain is so often misunderstood. |
| 0:46.5 | During sleep, our discs actually rehydrate themselves. |
| 0:49.8 | We literally gain height through hydration of the discs. |
| 0:52.4 | Really? |
| 0:53.4 | Because of what we call tech neck and we're seeing younger patients that need disc replacement, |
| 0:58.6 | Doritos and happy hours. |
| 0:59.9 | After sitting all day, it doesn't end up well. |
| 1:02.4 | It's extremely caustic to the spine. |
| 1:05.1 | There shouldn't be a situation where the quality of our life just goes way down. |
| 1:11.7 | Dr. Bokeshore, what a treat. Thanks for coming over. |
| 1:14.5 | It's an honor. It's a pleasure. |
| 1:16.1 | So as I mentioned to you before we started recording, |
| 1:19.6 | I've just endured and recovering from an excruciating bout of back pain. |
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