When the spine needs surgical repair, some people will delay it or skip it entirely, skeptical it will help. However, new surgical techniques, even high-tech robots mean better outcomes and faster recoveries.
When the spine needs surgical repair, some people will delay or skip it. Using new techniques, robots mean better outcomes and faster recoveries.When the spine needs surgical repair, some people will delay it or skip it entirely, skeptical it will help.Eileen Silverman's back got really bad in her 30s, after her fourth child.
"I was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease, and it was bone on bone," Eileen recalls, adding, "I was told my spine looked like a 60-year-old at 30." Medication did little to help, so Silverman avoided more and more of what she loved to avoid the pain. Although wary of a lower back operation, she continued hunting for the right surgeon, until she located Dr. Theresa Pazionis, a spinal surgeon at Temple Health."I looked in her eyes, and I had faith in her," she says."Meaning you can't move or you can't feel something or your bladder and bowel aren't working," she explains.
"I could finally feel my feet again. I could feel my leg again. I was feeling complete numbness on my right side," she recalls."There is a fix, and it's there, and you can get it done," Silverman says.Silverman was angry when he first got that new, but it motivated her to finally break her 30-year smoking habit, and she's thrilled.
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