Time to Move Beyond Pills in Treating Back Pain

Before being a police officer, Lee Davis was a world-class sprinter, running the 400 meters in under 45 seconds. (The world record is 43.5). But 20 years ago, he developed severe low back pain after a car accident. Over the last two decades, he did physical therapy, received injections, took painkillers, and underwent spinal fusion surgery, which welds two vertebrae into one bone.