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National Spine Health Foundation’s powerful influence and vital work
As we reach the final stretch of Grateful Giving Month, our board united in a heartfelt video celebrating the National Spine Health Foundation’s powerful influence and vital work!
Let’s keep moving forward to ensure that everyone has access to the care and information they need for a healthier spine.
Watch the video and support today: spinehealth.org/strong-2024/
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How to Find the Right Surgeon for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
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Choosing the right surgeon for minimally invasive spine surgery is a critical step toward successful treatment. In our latest "Ask the Expert" video, we offer practical tips for evaluating surgeons, from assessing their experience with advanced techniques to understanding patient outcomes and recovery times. These insights will help you make an informed decision and feel confident about your ca...
NASS VIP Breakfast: Celebrating 25 Years of Spine Renaissance and Innovation
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NASS VIP Breakfast: Celebrating 25 Years of Spine Renaissance and Innovation
NASS 2024 Panel Presentation
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Rita Roy presenting in a panel at the NASS 39th Annual Meeting.
We've Got Your Back Race Highlights 2024
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Our "We’ve Got Your Back” 5K Fun Run and Walk took place on October 20, and what an incredible day it was! 🏃🏃‍♀️ We are overwhelmed with gratitude for the community's enthusiasm and participation. A heartfelt thanks to all our sponsors, whose generous support played a pivotal role in raising awareness and funds for spine health. Your commitment helps us move closer to a future where spine healt...
What Should Patients Discuss with Their Surgeon Before Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery?
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If you're considering minimally invasive spine surgery, knowing the right questions to ask your surgeon is key to a successful outcome. Our latest "Ask the Expert" episode dives into critical topics, such as surgical options, recovery time, and potential risks, ensuring you feel confident and prepared. Don’t miss the full discussion here: spinehealth.org/talks/minimally-invasive-spine-surgery-w...
This November, join us in supporting SpineS.T.R.O.N.G!
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At the National Spine Health Foundation, we’re dedicated to empowering those affected by spinal conditions to lead healthier, pain-free lives. This November, join us in supporting SpineS.T.R.O.N.G! 💙 Through our Spine S.T.R.O.N.G. initiative, your support directly impacts: Support: Ensuring access to critical resources. Treatment: Promoting wellness and prevention. Research: Advancing innovativ...
Ask the Expert - how imaging technology helps surgeons perform with accuracy?
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In Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, precision is everything-and medical imaging plays a crucial role. Our latest episode in the Ask the Expert series delves into how imaging technology helps surgeons perform with accuracy, ensuring better outcomes for patients. Watch now: spinehealth.org/talks/minimally-invasive-spine-surgery-what-you-need-to-know/ #MinimallyInvasiveSurgery #SpineHealth #Spina...
Ask the Expert - What is Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery?
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Ask the Expert - What is Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery?
Dual Diagnosis: Managing Scoliosis Surgery and Osteoporosis at 65
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Dual Diagnosis: Managing Scoliosis Surgery and Osteoporosis at 65
How is precision medicine changing the landscape of opioid prescriptions?
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How is precision medicine changing the landscape of opioid prescriptions?
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: What You Need to Know
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Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: What You Need to Know
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: What You Need to know.
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Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: What You Need to know.
International Podcast Day
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International Podcast Day
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS): Minimizing Opioids Component
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Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS): Minimizing Opioids Component
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS): Minimizing Opioids Component
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Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS): Minimizing Opioids Component
Mortality Rate Linked to Spinal Fractures: What You Need to Know
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Mortality Rate Linked to Spinal Fractures: What You Need to Know
Advance Race Training
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Advance Race Training
How Continuous Pre Surgery Opioid Use Complicates Recovery
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How Continuous Pre Surgery Opioid Use Complicates Recovery
Get Race Ready: Intermediate Race Training
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Get Race Ready: Intermediate Race Training
Understanding Bone Health: Why It's Crucial for Everyone?
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Understanding Bone Health: Why It's Crucial for Everyone?
Get Race Ready: Beginner Race Training
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Get Race Ready: Beginner Race Training
Your Ultimate 5K Prep Guide | The National Spine Health Foundation
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Your Ultimate 5K Prep Guide | The National Spine Health Foundation
The Importance of Personalized Diagnoses When Prescribing Opioids
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The Importance of Personalized Diagnoses When Prescribing Opioids
Challenges in Managing Post Operative Pain
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Challenges in Managing Post Operative Pain
What New Osteoporosis Medications Are Giving Hope to Patients Today?
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What New Osteoporosis Medications Are Giving Hope to Patients Today?
What are the Future Directions and Emerging Technologies in Approaching Pain Management?
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What are the Future Directions and Emerging Technologies in Approaching Pain Management?
What Are Enhance Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Protocols?
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What Are Enhance Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Protocols?
How to Prevent Common Summer-Related Back Pain?
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How to Prevent Common Summer-Related Back Pain?
Opioids, Pain & Spine Health: Compassion for a Complex Topic
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Opioids, Pain & Spine Health: Compassion for a Complex Topic

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  • @lauraschembri8010
    @lauraschembri8010 16 днів тому

    Thank You Doctor. Listening to you, explain what is Arthritis made me feel a lot better. My pain started 18 months ago and I am 76yrs. Listening to your advice to keep active is the best advise for me. I swim, walk, exercise before I get out of bed and even in the afternoon, I also go to an acupuncture, after doing all that the stiffness doesn't go away. I am learning to accept it and move on, otherwise I am going to be miserable all my life.

  • @chuckmcdonald8849
    @chuckmcdonald8849 19 днів тому

    Dr. Savage in Aug of 2023 did a T-4 S-1 fusion on my spine he is a very confident and talented spinal specialist !! Congratulations on your achievements !!

  • @A87-p1l
    @A87-p1l Місяць тому

    Explains VERY well. The body so crazy

  • @reality_is_the_key
    @reality_is_the_key Місяць тому

    I have to say that surgeons have really screwed up people with this new nano particle concoction. They dont tell you that it can grow and spread, covering nerves, tissue, and has led to deaths due to suffocation. It also increases your risk of cancer by a whopping 25%. Think twice. It really doesn't speed up healing or give a guarantee of successful fusion. Do your own research. Look at the ongoing lawsuits. Sincerely, a BMP patient.

  • @Lisa-ly4qn
    @Lisa-ly4qn Місяць тому

    Hi I'm new here too😮pain in my back left arm shoulder lower back everyday one doctor says I have 3 bulging discs and arthritis fibromyalgia so crazy but all I get help with is pain medicine 💊💉 injection don't work.i asked about an arthritis medicine they say there isn't any the doctors on the easternshore such!! I'm so loss for not knowing where to turn or what to do.anyone know a great experience doctor???🙏I'm now 60yrs old begsn about 30yrs old with back trouble.plus I had both hips replaced in the pass at age 45/47😢

  • @k29401
    @k29401 Місяць тому

    I had symptoms of AS, and pain my entire life. Unfortunately, I was an ignored kid, so I never looked for medical diagnosis. Two years ago, an injury to my hips (SI) had me seeking answers for my everywhere pain, and developing drop foot in both feet.I had to beg a doctor to order an MRI of my hips. The diagnosis was in that MRI, a year ago. I found out from my insurance company a MONTH ago. I have been ghosted and Gas lit by a HUGE Medical community. I may be in a wheelchair, soon. NSAIDs are not helping me anymore.... not sure if it ever did. Having a had time getting ANY doctor to treat my pain management...

  • @sandrastone7019
    @sandrastone7019 Місяць тому

    Music is too loud.

  • @LateashaWilson-c2o
    @LateashaWilson-c2o 2 місяці тому

    I'm a new subscriber from Maryland amazing video 🎉

    • @Lisa-ly4qn
      @Lisa-ly4qn Місяць тому

      Hi me too what doctor have you seen and where I'm in Easton MD on Maryland Easternshore doctor's suck no good here

  • @gibbysgirl
    @gibbysgirl 2 місяці тому

    Back problems ruins your life.

  • @LeslieWilson-z5p
    @LeslieWilson-z5p 2 місяці тому

    Hello. I am a chronic pain sufferer and I use cannabis to relive the symptoms. I have been suffering for decades and the pain has become so profound that I have had to stop working. However, the cost of medication is still significant, and I'm attempting to reduce some subsidies to accommodate the cost, as these are "out of pocket" expenses. I have been asked to obtain a letter from my healthcare provider indicating support for the use of THC to control pain, as medical and recreational marijuana are legal in my state. I inquired with my traditional PC and the request was denied, because they said they didn't provide the prescription for medical marijuana. That's true. The prescription was provided by a Marijuana doctor. I inquired for support from this doctor and I got a standard form letter, offering some support. I am looking to obtain a stronger provider letter that will specifically support the use of cannabis to control pain. How can I do this?

  • @TeepeeForMyPeepee
    @TeepeeForMyPeepee 2 місяці тому

    ⭐️

  • @douglasmoss6569
    @douglasmoss6569 2 місяці тому

    I had a 3 level lower lumbar disc replacements on May 7 by Dr Johnson of Idaho Falls ID. On may 7 before surgery i entered the Idaho Falls community relying heavily on my walker in intolerable pain in my legs my nerves compressed and damaged. I decided maybe I could take two more weeks. As the Dr said I was to the point where the quality of life “was not worth living any more”. My insurance had already approved a fusion in CA where I live. Research led me to artificial discs. 4 hours after my surgery, I sold straight and walked without that hell pain. Truly life saving for me and a miracle. It was worth every penny and I was lucky enough to have a retirement account. I just did an hour on the treadmill. Better every day. If you need it don’t wait, just do it. Feel free to contact me.

  • @BillySquier-mw7zd
    @BillySquier-mw7zd 3 місяці тому

    If you just start stuffing your face with different pharmaceuticals you'll get less side effects. Maybe throw in some covid vacts with some boosters. That's why Pfizer's introducing a new one of a kind burrito. It consists of a tortilla wrapped around some of the most classic and iconic prescriptions out there. We got your blood pressure medicine, pills for your joints, memory loss, do you have Crohn's disease? There's a pill in there for you too, have acid reflux, digestion issues, kidney failure, scoliosis, Puberty blockers. All the pills are in there. If your cat person, dog person, if you prefer wheat bread over white or even white bread over wheat, hell even if your favorite color is blue are you wear your hat backwards we have pills for you in there.. We got 87 different pills in there can we top it off with a queso and carne sauce. Here comes with a medium fountain drink. Are drink options are covid vaccine, we got your booster, tetanus shot and rabies shot along with many other refreshing options. Coming secretly are monkey pocks in bird flu vaccines for the world economic forms next PLANdemic

  • @user-ix9wx6ms9v
    @user-ix9wx6ms9v 3 місяці тому

    I signed up for clinical pilate program. I hope it will help.

  • @BabyHaylien
    @BabyHaylien 3 місяці тому

    I thought the pain I've had in my lower back for a while was just a disc or something but the last few months I've had more than a few instances where all the sudden I'm doubled over in horrible pain for 10 mins and nothing helps. It starts in my back and radiates towards my abdomen. Intense pain kinda stabbing-like but idk and idk where exactly it comes from either but it reoccurs at least once every other week or so

    • @BabyHaylien
      @BabyHaylien 3 місяці тому

      Also random spells of nausea as well as weird muscle spasms just quick little jerks. Idk if that's related or not

  • @anitapaige5253
    @anitapaige5253 3 місяці тому

    I have AS, deal with chronic pain daily. I'm looking for a rheumotologist that specializes in this disease....please help

  • @mimisharpe7611
    @mimisharpe7611 3 місяці тому

    You are promoting intractable pain akin to torturing your patients. You have no idea, first hand how chronic pain can literally stop you in your tracks as it has done to me. I spend most of everyday in bed. I have tried every, and I mean every non-opioid therapy and they did not work. You are doing nothing more than causing fear and stigmatism amongst the chronic pain community. This the most unscientific and insufficient video that I have seen to date. You want to take your patient off of opioids prior to surgery? Are you kidding me? I feel like you are all going mad. In 10 20 years, I have absolutely no doubt that the medical community will look back at this as absolutely horrible period in medical history and ask what were they thinking? I don't want to be a guinea pig. Shame on you all.

  • @ThyKingdomCome_7
    @ThyKingdomCome_7 3 місяці тому

    @2:16 Let me tell you what’s “uncool” Doc…. Taking a knife to your patient & only giving the patient NSAIDs in (lieu of tried & true opioids)which can induce/increase bleeding! This is what happened to me for several days until SOMEONE realized how serious this was. It’s astonishing to me how patient history (history of stomach ulcers for ex.) is being thrown out the window. We are slowly going to become an anti-surgery country instead of an anti opioid country! Everyone is experiencing this lunacy now.

  • @darktwistedbrandy3628
    @darktwistedbrandy3628 3 місяці тому

    These “experts” were paid MILLIONS to spew anti opioid. WE THE PEOPLE WHO YOU OPERATE ON DO FANTASTIC using opioids! We are HURTING and opioids WORK! Don’t you ever believe the propaganda they spew. Never do an opioid free spine surgery

  • @claudiaa.merandi1969
    @claudiaa.merandi1969 3 місяці тому

    These doctors have received 8 million from pharma yet failed to dismiss this

  • @freebirdofparadise
    @freebirdofparadise 3 місяці тому

    Nervous system, cortisol, high non nutritious carb diet, behavioral patterns, neuro-musculature, habits, habits, habits, traumas (emotional and physical), lifestyle, dysfunctional use of body, habits habits habits, lifestyle, furniture …. 51 now. If could have had the awareness i do now, i think the progression into several herniations could have been derailed 30 yrs ago! Thats how long this train has been coming. Not for me not trying to get help when things started changing in other parts of MY CONNECTED BODY, but i wasnt “sick” or “visibly injured” yet. 2nd herniation, pain dr showed me my mri and the fatty infiltrates in the muscle and the whole brain lit up. still categorized by my pcp as his words” perfectly healthy”. nope, whats happening inside me just hasnt manifested into a lab result worthy of tx. THANKING GOD for all the gaslighting, horrible pain, and just other weird divine interventions that kept me from further modern med interventions and drugs. I now believe the 2nd half is going to be greater than the first. I had to dig my own self out of the woods to find a pathway towards holistic wellbeing. Prayers for humans to find their way. 👣🌈🦋

  • @user-trudestar
    @user-trudestar 4 місяці тому

    Thank you so much Jed You have given so much of your time to support us all 🙏🙏🙏

  • @crisismanagement
    @crisismanagement 4 місяці тому

    In 1974 I got hit by a car at 4, and in hospital received a blood transfusion. I have AS now but none of my family has it

  • @nataliegist2014
    @nataliegist2014 4 місяці тому

    it took decades for a Diagnosis it wasn’t until fusing started happening that it was diagnosed.

  • @ludannelasyvyus1824
    @ludannelasyvyus1824 5 місяців тому

    7/04/2024 What is the best diet/food regimen for AS, either to decrease the severity, or keep it from getting worse? I'm already a Vegetarian, for almost 50 years. B.1953

  • @ludannelasyvyus1824
    @ludannelasyvyus1824 5 місяців тому

    7/04/2024 Hello: My discomfort is mainly where my neck joins at the shoulder, both sides. What is the recommended effective Tx for pain relief in that area? Thx.

  • @dejgo351
    @dejgo351 5 місяців тому

    Jeez, can’t stand this guy

  • @darlenew3201
    @darlenew3201 5 місяців тому

    I was diagnostic with AS so good to hear from you!! Can I get on your site

  • @darlenew3201
    @darlenew3201 5 місяців тому

    Thank you going to go see doctor this morning! Pray for wisdom

  • @mickeyfoeller771
    @mickeyfoeller771 5 місяців тому

    I had trouble walking last summer due to weird pain in my groin & buttocks as well as low back & neck pain with an occasional stab in my back. Now I have something wrong with my knee which the doc thinks is a torn meniscus, but I'm thinking it might be another issue popping up from possible AS????

  • @danplugaru8187
    @danplugaru8187 5 місяців тому

    Mister you have not AS classic.....after 5o years of clasic spondylitis ankylozant i know what i say! Many have other forms...

    • @danplugaru8187
      @danplugaru8187 5 місяців тому

      I mean is a lighter form your neck is still ok an can drive a car.... I mean is a milder form...AS radiographic is on young man and is hard when onset at earlier age....under 20 years idms Harper and can lead to progressive fusion of spine..." bamboo spine...is " Queen of reumatic desease ...at women is poliartritic form predominant...I saw many cases in 50 years..

  • @bigredd5171
    @bigredd5171 6 місяців тому

    Great discussion. Thank you

  • @tlefco
    @tlefco 6 місяців тому

    at 40:14 Dr Gum mentions something I was probably guilty of in my last 3 failed surgeries. I want MIS, and that was it.. So very glad I found Dr Lehman, and after 12 years, I hopefully will be out of misery with my lower back!

  • @its_ari5458
    @its_ari5458 6 місяців тому

    I don't understand some surgeon Don't wanna do disc replacement my Surgeon telling me it's not effective. And here you guys preaching. It works better than fusion Don't know who to believe

  • @Myloves01
    @Myloves01 7 місяців тому

    I have arthritis last 5 years I am only 47 and I am tired of this pain I try everything to live normal but the pain is unbearable I have 8 year old twin girls and I worry some days I am going to die of this pain doctors doesn’t tell me anything other than because I am old I get this and they keep giving me pain pills which has side affects on me I don’t take them Anymore but what else I can do I already go to terapy it hurts so much my upper body shoulders and lower back pain leg pain arms what else I can do pls 🙏🏻😢

  • @stephanietoiletpaperbride4484
    @stephanietoiletpaperbride4484 7 місяців тому

    I’m a 68yo female, living in Fort Worth, Texas. A few months ago I heard a comment about the LIFTMOR Study and immediately started researching on line and found some videos of the Bone Clinic, and Dr. Beck and the amazing results they were achieving. I knew immediately I wanted to embark on this journey. After identifying the specific exercises, and protocol for the program, I started the program myself after getting a green light from my orthopedic doctor and partnering up with a personal trainer who I educated about the exercises, standards, and goals of the program. He is keeping me in good form! I was also able to get an x-ray of my Cobb angle and will be getting current DEXA scan…both as baseline scores. I am hungry for any additional information about the program as I can be privy to. Things such as nutritional guidelines, additional exercises, etc. I just don’t know how to contact the Bone Clinic as a non-patient, and if they are willing to share more of their protocols. I’ve heard this program is being rolled out all across Australia and wish so much, that could happen here in the US. If you can share any link or way I can get new info, newsletters, Q and A’s etc, it would be greatly appreciated. You guys are doing marvelous things. Thank you for turning my health around. Right now I’m dead-lifting 55lbs, having started at 25. But it’s onwards and upwards for me, thanks to you! NOTE: I started my own program, February 2024

  • @shinjumorris8161
    @shinjumorris8161 8 місяців тому

    Symptoms at 16, severe symptoms beginning at 20, iritis at 24, diagnosed with AS at 26.

  • @countrygirl7492
    @countrygirl7492 8 місяців тому

    It took way too long and several rheumatologists to finally get my diagnosis. I have a battery operated scooter that I use when a lot of walking is required and I use my parking pass on my worst days. Weather definitely makes it harder. I love my heat pads.

  • @PryerSjomamd
    @PryerSjomamd 8 місяців тому

    COCA COLA CARCENOGENUC BY ATLANTIC BOTTLING COMPANY . INC COCAINE LEAF OR IN LATIN/ENGLISH COCA , COCCA COLA US EXTRACTORS MFG FORnLDIHUDE ❤ CANCER MORBID OR MD SURGERY OR CHEMO RADISTION TREATMENT . GLANDULAR CONFUSED NERVVES SIGNAL MATRIX . CONFUSION SUDE EFFECT SYMPTOMS OF DIABETIC NON TREATABLE MENTAL DEFECTED ESS DECOMPESATED AEARENESS CONCEPTS CONTRASTING TIME SPACE SELF EVIDENT SELF NSRCESSISTIC ZOMBYES COCAINES TRACES ENCUMBERING CHEMUCAL AND PHYSICALS DELAPUDATIONS CELL NUMB UNTO BEAIN FILTER IN NUMBER STATE SERUMS AND HOROMONES BLEND NON USESBLES MEBTAL SUGNALS TRANSFERING BLAME TO ENVIOR.NMENTAL SOLIS TRANSFER SEKF HURT BLANE NEARBY OERSON MUNCHAUSEN CON SWUTCH GAMUNG RACKET

  • @marcelarodriguez9280
    @marcelarodriguez9280 8 місяців тому

    I am 71 years old i have known that have scoliosis and never was told they could help me. And now pain and the curve is affecting my whole live. I had been going to a pain doctor for a steroid shot in my lower back pain which i didn't feel any relief from the injection last September. I contact the doctor that could he order a xray to check how my back is getting worse. I always had pain below my left breast that that goes to my back. I was disappointed cause they send the mri to a orthopedic doctor he said it wasn't so bad to have surgery. I really want to know how could get pain relief. And about the scoliosis i couldn't get surgery cause my age. He said i could get you appointment with the scoliosis dr. But he said my pain Doctor knows what to . He is good doctor. I feel like neither doctor care about my pain and since i am old i need keep in pain. I feel alive I retired and i love to be active, love to dance, cooking. I don't see to get my help from the doctors that need to help me.

  • @lucillekean7035
    @lucillekean7035 8 місяців тому

    Why did you have a fusion. You are young , there are other ways of getting your back back. !, LK from Canaa❤😊

  • @glovere2
    @glovere2 8 місяців тому

    Great conversation. I urge everyone (and remind myself) to join a support group because those are the only people who truly know what this disease is like. I call it a "You Look Fine" disease because all the nasty stuff happens on the inside. Except for uveitis, which I thought was pink eye when I first got it. It's how I was diagnosed. My amazing GP took one look in my eye, got a grim look on his face, and then put me in a cab to the ophthalmologist where the eye guy listed all my symptoms without even examining me. Do you have this? Yup. How about that and that? Yup and another yup. How does this eye doctor know about my back? He then decided to tell me a story about his colleague with AS who was a neurologist. "Was" is the operative word there because he slipped on the ice and broke his fragile neck. "OK Doc, I said. No slipping on ice, although this is Chicago. Lots of ice here." He also said not to get in any bar fights, which is good advice in general. They don't call it brittle spine disease for nothing. It's a wicked, lonely disease that can steal the goodness from your life. I've had it for 40 years. I got the gene. My uncle had it. Your job is to do whatever you can to hold on to as much of your life's goodness as you can. You're gonna need a lot of help with that or the pain and disability and your own depression will eat it all up. You have to get creative when coping with a life sentence. My uncle died at 87 and I'm still here at 66. There were times when I didn't want to be, but that's where the help comes in. In my case, I have very little pain now with my treatment and the fact that the disease kind of simmers down starting in your 50s, which is something I read when I was diagnosed and found it to be true. Fatigue is another story. That's the tough one because it shuts your life down. Everybody is different but we are all in this together. I have wisdom and a perspective on the illness that should be shared with others. So does everyone who gets this awful thing. That's what support groups are for.

  • @richardwright5597
    @richardwright5597 8 місяців тому

    check out boron for health ,also paint a blob about the size of a 50 cent peace in the arch of each foot i have excellent results from this

  • @leonaowen9234
    @leonaowen9234 8 місяців тому

    How to deal with lots of pain, just diagnosed with severe chronic arthritis with some lumber pinched nerves. Will not do surgery.

  • @Skirkly
    @Skirkly 9 місяців тому

    I would like to see Dr. Shaffrey. I'm near NC Duke. I need a 3rd opinion. 2 Hemvertebrae in the lumbar region with 51 degrees at top and 36 at bottom with 1st hemivertebrae around L1 or 2 and the 2nd L4 or 5. I have one opinion saying fuse my spine in situ and leave my curve at 51 degrees at the top and 36 at the bottom and clean up the stenosis. The other wants to do osteotomy and straighten it up as much as possible. I have no idea what to do!! I'm just sick of laying in the bed at 57 years of age!! Can't even hardly leave the house because I may have to lay down.☹😤😢

  • @fitnesssoup7553
    @fitnesssoup7553 9 місяців тому

    Chips, sodas, candies, cookies and other high carbohydrate and sugary items are good to limit or avoid altogether right along with most of the ultra processed foods. We are conditioned to neglect our bodies. Perhaps if we really valued our health so much of what we experience would be avoided or reduced considerably. But, that makes lots of money for those manipulating and exploiting us. My surgeon said my healing was among the best that he's witnessed. It probably had a lot to my being committed to surgery being successful. Eat well, get adequate rest, walk and do the exercises. Of course, as I'm sometimes reminded, I'm not a physician. 😮

  • @bettymacdixon8411
    @bettymacdixon8411 9 місяців тому

    Please remove the noise very interfering and it sounds like important information. I’d like to learn.

  • @panashemashamhanda637
    @panashemashamhanda637 9 місяців тому

    My child has been recently diagnosed with Ankylosing spondylitis after long years of suffering ,Unfortunately currently she is the only known Zimbabwean ,she got diagnosis in SA , Currently not known to Zimbabweans Thanx to SA medical field

  • @jrbaretta
    @jrbaretta 9 місяців тому

    This is absolute torture beyond anything imaginable, especially when you suffer from it from the thoracic to the lumbar, into the sacroiliac joints. If I wasn't on vicodin, gabapentin, morphine and Tylenol rapid release 4 times a day, the pain would be uncontrollable and constant, too much to bear living and has you wishing you were dead because you come to believe you are better off dead rather than suffer like that. If it wasn't for the painkillers, I wouldn't be living. Still, in a very real sense, it's a living death since my activities are severely limited. The doctor is right here when he said you have this pain for life once you have it. When I wake up, the pain is at it's worse because the more I rest in bed, though I need the rest and I always sleep with a heating pad for my back, still when I awaken, the pain hits me through the roof because my body has been dormant while sleeping. I wake up like a corpse with rigor mortis in my back and associated pain in my limbs and joints throughout my body.

    • @lvGallo-qc7ql
      @lvGallo-qc7ql 7 місяців тому

      Me too, my epidurals and ablations have not worked and unfortunately cannot take meds orally , they kill my stomach and bring on my IBS. You keep hopping for something else , if you have the money.Mornings are the worst.

    • @TheBebelass
      @TheBebelass 5 місяців тому

      I feel your pain,🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

    • @paulinesalter7452
      @paulinesalter7452 Місяць тому

      I have Scoliosis of the lower spine, a Specialist I saw a month ago mm said he wouldn't operate mm it is too dangerous, but I have read there are other things o can be done, I am in agony all the time mm and can't walk for over a year without crutches, would an MRI Scan shows what's rong and whst can be done

    • @jrbaretta
      @jrbaretta Місяць тому

      @@paulinesalter7452 MRI AND CAT SCANS SHOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN DONE FOR YOU, FIND A GOOD SPINE SURGEON, THEY'LL ORDER THE TESTS.