Discovering & Treating the Facet Syndrome: Case Studies for 12 Medical Specialties (2nd Edition)

Headaches, dental pain, trigeminal neuralgia, instability and dizziness, ear noises, eye problems, urology problems like testicle pain and neurogenic bladder, abdominal pain, perplexing general surgeons and gynecologists, cardiac and respiratory manifestations, obscure neurological entities like spastic paraparesis, peritrochanteric and knee pain, Sudeck syndromes, certain types of sciatica and a lot of other morbid manifestations whose etiology still remains obscure, are some of the symptoms that current medical practice, more often than not, fails to treat due to incorrect diagnosis of the root problem. Our autonomous nervous system, authorized to protect us even from ourselves, in an attempt to attract our attention, will often inflict pain in other parts of our body when we do not seem to take notice of strain in the real problem area. One such simple example is chronic headaches as a result of strain on our neck or back, due to bad work or reading posture. This book shines light into cause and effect relationships that span across 12 medical specialties, as treated successfully for thousands of patients, by Orthopedic Surgeon Nikolaos Giantsios, over a 45 year career. It also challenges the single-sided examination of patients by an increasingly specialized body of medical practitioners that yields significant patient, social, productivity and healthcare costs, unnecessarily.