Nerve Root Pain?
Nerve root pain as the result of a damaged or compressed nerve can cause a variety of symptoms such sharp pain in your back/arms/legs, numbness, increased sensitivity, or muscle weakness.…
Spine Surgery: Herniated or Torn Disc
When you have a herniated or torn disc, as this patient does, the pain doesn't always limit itself to the spinal region. Pain can radiate and spread down into your…
Grateful to the Catholic Health System for my Patient Experience Award
In this season of gratitude, I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude for being honored by the Catholic Health System for Patient Experience. Out of 3,200 doctors,…
An Extruded Disc Herniation Case
Have you heard of an extruded disc herniation? Let's explore this spine surgery case and how I treated my patient to alleviate their pain. Struggling with chronic back or neck pain? Give…
Endoscopic Discectomy/Decompression
Here we go again...another interesting spine surgery! This patient had a laminectomy years ago but recently began to experience acute pain that became unrelenting. Take a look at this endoscopic…
Spine Surgery: Collapsing Scoliosis (Part 2/2)
(Part 2/2) I am always a big proponent of minimally invasive spine surgery when applicable. Once again I teamed up with Dr Pell, this time to treat a patient with…
Spine Surgery: Collapsing Scoliosis (Part 1/2)
(Part 1/2) Spine surgery is interesting because each surgery is unique to the patient. In this case, my patient had collapsing scoliosis where the discs actually collapsed onto a previous…
Minimally Invasive Spine Fusion
Life is scary enough without severe back pain haunting you. In this case, my patient had a previously fractured L5 vertebrae that, due to adjacent segment degeneration, now needs fusion…
Multi Level Fusion Surgery
On a recent video about a 3 level fusion, I received a comment from @mro53 asking about multi level fusion surgery. Here's my answer! Struggling with chronic back or neck…
An Excellent Visual of a Herniated Disc
Between your vertebrae are discs that act as shock absorbers and prevent the bones from rubbing together. In this case, the patient has a recurrent disc herniation that is pinching…
