I truly believe too many people are getting operated on, and when they do get operated on, they're getting the wrong surgery.

40 years ago, when you had a bad hip or a bad knee, they put a rod through the knee, they put a rod through the hip, that joint is no longer functional. Why we're still doing that to the spine, to me, is acinine. Dr. Jared Amant is a board-certified neurosurgeon known as the anti-fusion doctor. He specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery designed to help patients avoid fusions and preserve their natural movement. Pain is a way for the body telling us there's a problem. The spine needs muscular support to stay whole. We're all degenerate. We're all getting older. You can slow that process down. It's important to know when pain is guiding you to do something differently, when it's okay to do something to mask that pain. You can go down the rabbit hole and say, oh my God, I'm going to just cake pills the rest of my life and we have the opiate epidemic on our hands. That's not an answer. Pain doesn't usually happen in isolation. It happens for a reason. And it's important to understand it. What are the biggest misconceptions patients have about back pain the biggest misconception is that every day

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Welcome back. We are very excited today. We have a special guest, Dr. Jared D. Aitment. He's a

fellowship trained American board certified neurosurgeon, specializes in complex and minimal We have a special guest, Dr. Jared D. Ament. He's a fellowship-trained American Board Certified

Neurosurgeon, specializes in complex and minimally invasive brain and spine surgery using the latest

technologies, including neuronavigation, endoscopy, and robotics. He's also a fellow of the American

College of Surgeons, and his practice focuses heavily on motion preservation.

He's often referred to as the anti-fusion doctor. Want to hear more about that? He's also the first

in the world to innovate and initiate the 360-degree arthroplasty trial. And when motion preservation

is not feasible, he also specializes in the management

of degenerative spine diseases, brain and spine tumors, and facial and pain spasm syndromes. Dr.

Oment has operated on many celebrities and professional athletes and is currently the principal investigator

on several FDA clinical trials, researching to next generation of

artificial disc and motion preservation technologies. So we're so excited to have you. So, and how we got

introduced is I was on Max Lugave's podcast, I have a new book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain.

And he said pain was in his brain, but also in his back.

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