Surgery, is it always the answer?
To someone who has never had surgery, the notion seems alien, frightening even, but what if I told you there were people out there desperate for it? My physio once told me about a young girl who was in so much hip pain, she was practically begging for an operation. The trouble was, her muscle mass was so low, they needed to build her up first, and the surgeons were apprehensive in any case, especially as there were multiple surgeries available to them. I found the story really worrying and heartbreaking. She hadn't even considered the possibilities of it going wrong, but she was desperate, and I understood her rationale. When you're in so much pain all the time and someone dangles this 'fix' in front of you, it's easy to get carried away. I've been that girl, on more than one occasion. Truth is, sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes it can actually make things much worse than they were before, and sometimes these mistakes are irreversible. I’ve si...