David

It posted before I could provide the link.

In the following video, one of the doctors asks the audience(at the 17:25 mark) of doctors how many “take” the illioinguinal nerve and the answer was 20%! Then he said that he also did in the older patients, but tried to preserve it in the younger. He then says that they don’t notice.

The presumptiveness is bothersome. What justification is…[Read more]

I appreciate the thought, effort and objective of this thread.

1)Is one or the other methods recommended based on size of the hernia? If so, at what size, generally, would one method gain preference? (my hernia on the right side is about the size of the top half of a tennis ball.)

2)I’ve read on this forum that thinner folks who engage in…[Read more]