Spinal anaesthesia is one of the most popular forms of anaesthesia used for various surgical procedures. However, not unlike general anaesthesia, there are plenty of wrong notions and misconceptions about this form of anaesthesia. With the aim of helping you understand better about this, here are some misconceptions (and the reality) about Spinal Anaesthesia. Myth 1 - Spinal Anaesthesia results in life-long backache. Believe me.
Nobody is taking your fear as a joke. Extensive studies involving tens of thousands of patients have been done over decades on this subject because we wanted to know this too. The end result is that the incidence of backache after spinal anaesthesia is not significant enough to imply it is caused by the procedure. Temporary pain at the site may be there but a chronic long term problem is almost nil. Myth 2 - Anesthesiologists are poking the spinal cord blindly.…
