Laser Spine Institute

So your doctors say that you need surgery, and instead you are still searching for fancier bandaids?

I understand that you have kids and a full time job. But if the specialist who went to years of medical school to be an expert in their field were telling me that I need surgery, I'd find a way instead of insisting stubbornly that I just need to ace-wrap it.

Go back to your specialists and talk with them about laser surgery and whether they think you're a good candidate BEFORE you go to the Laser Spine Institute and talk with the salespeople who WANT you to be a good candidate.

You need to have a current MRI done for them to make a proper evaluation for treatment. Making surgical decisions on an MRI that is 5 years old is not a good idea. Sorry you are in so much pain. I have no personal experience with the Laser Spine Institute.

I think I know what place your talking about but I don't know anything about it. My concern with this though is an MRI from 5-6 yrs ago. So much could have changed since then--and not for the better. My husband was injured at work in 2005. He was initally told he had a lumbar sprain by the "doctors" that worked for the employer--wish we had copies of the MRI and other things done when he went to chiropractor. They sent him back to work and a disc broke. He had one surgery to repair that and after a few days was up and around. But then a year later had another surgery to put titanium spacers in his spine. This time, he could not even walk for a week. He was in in-patient therapy for 2 weeks and then home with physical therapy home visits for 6 months. He has nerve damage, gets cramps sometimes but now he is able to do things and not in pain like he was. He has not taken painkillers other than occasional Aleve for about 4 yrs now. Just wanted to share to show there can be a LOT of improvement with surgery even though it can be really scary. Our oldest were 6 when he got hurt, then we had another when he had to stop therapy. Now he is able to play with them. Adjustments will have to be made for a while but think about less pain you will have and more you are able to do with the kids.

As your doctors what they think about "Laser Spine Institute". They are the ones that know if this is a good solution for you or not. It looks like they have an Ohio location too. If your doctors don't agree that it is right for you though, you *must* stop avoiding getting the care they are telling you that you need.

My mother wanted to find alternates to surgery for her back problems and now she has permanent damage. The surgery could only repair so much because she waited too long. She will have to use pain management for the rest of her life just to function, including narcotics as well as implants put into her nerve centers to block sensations.

If you think that managing the short time it will take to recover from surgery is not an option, what do you think of having to manage the rest of your kids' childhood as a partially disabled mother?