45 min

Corporate Spine: How Spine Surgery Went Off Track- Interview with Dr. Ardavan Aslie Medical Truth Podcast

    • Medicine

Each year, an estimated half-million people will undergo spinal fusion surgery in the U.S. alone. In most cases, surgeons will implant rods and screws into a patient’s fused vertebrae as part of the procedure. There’s just one enormous problem: according to the published medical literature, the screws provide little to no benefit for patients. Dr. Ardavan Aslie is a board-certified Harvard-trained university fellow spine surgeon who recently published his book called Corporate Spine: How Spin...

Each year, an estimated half-million people will undergo spinal fusion surgery in the U.S. alone. In most cases, surgeons will implant rods and screws into a patient’s fused vertebrae as part of the procedure. There’s just one enormous problem: according to the published medical literature, the screws provide little to no benefit for patients. Dr. Ardavan Aslie is a board-certified Harvard-trained university fellow spine surgeon who recently published his book called Corporate Spine: How Spin...

45 min