The risk of traditional “open” back surgery causing more pain is so high that it has been labeled “Failed Back Surgery Syndrome” and over 50% of these surgeries fail.

Further, as additional open spine surgeries are conducted, the success rates drop with each subsequent surgery.  In a 2011 issue of Pain Medicine, C-W Chan and P. Peng said that initial success rates stand at 50 percent, then 30 percent at the second surgery, 15 percent at the third, and five percent at the fourth.  (“Failed Back Surgery Syndrome, Pain Medicine, (12:577-606)

Dr. Alfred Bonati developed patented instruments to correct problems from previous failed open back surgery. These procedures are available exclusively at The Bonati Spine Institute, where we specialize in correcting previously failed back surgery. The Bonati Spine Procedures have a success rate of over 94%. If are you still in pain after having “open” back surgery at another medical facility, there is still hope.