Leo
08-29-2003, 04:36 PM
NEW SURGICAL PROCEDURE MAY REDUCE BACK PAIN
08/29/2003
Back pain is listed as the second most common pain in the body, but back surgery can be very painful and costly. Thanks to a new surgical procedure that may all change.
Bryan Latham has more.
77 year old Colleen Hollowa was suffering from severe back pain, that�s until on August 19th when she checked into the new Idaho Spine Center at Bingham Memorial.
Colleen Hollowwa � Patient
"I just wanted to give up and die." There she met Dr. Grant Walker a back surgeon who specializes in a new spinal surgery procedure
Dr. Grant Walker - MD, Spine Surgeon
"We want to try and do something with the smallest incision that we can."
Dr. Grant Walker - MD, Spine Surgeon
"The problem with traditional back surgery is that patients would end up in a lot of pain to due muscle damage, new minimal invasive surgery hopes to change all that."
Dr. Grant Walker - MD, Spine Surgeon
"We try to do things or approach that are the least invasive damaging, disturbing, scarring to the patient." With the aid of $1,000,000 in new equipment the hospital was able to have her walking again in only a couple of weeks.
Colleen Hollowwa � Patient
"I walk perfectly, I am healthy, my pain is gone, I do have pain, but it's not like it was." The new Spine Center at Bingham Memorial is the only hospital in Idaho to provide this type of surgery.
http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbcheadlines.cfm&ID=14809
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given you."
Gandolf the Great
08/29/2003
Back pain is listed as the second most common pain in the body, but back surgery can be very painful and costly. Thanks to a new surgical procedure that may all change.
Bryan Latham has more.
77 year old Colleen Hollowa was suffering from severe back pain, that�s until on August 19th when she checked into the new Idaho Spine Center at Bingham Memorial.
Colleen Hollowwa � Patient
"I just wanted to give up and die." There she met Dr. Grant Walker a back surgeon who specializes in a new spinal surgery procedure
Dr. Grant Walker - MD, Spine Surgeon
"We want to try and do something with the smallest incision that we can."
Dr. Grant Walker - MD, Spine Surgeon
"The problem with traditional back surgery is that patients would end up in a lot of pain to due muscle damage, new minimal invasive surgery hopes to change all that."
Dr. Grant Walker - MD, Spine Surgeon
"We try to do things or approach that are the least invasive damaging, disturbing, scarring to the patient." With the aid of $1,000,000 in new equipment the hospital was able to have her walking again in only a couple of weeks.
Colleen Hollowwa � Patient
"I walk perfectly, I am healthy, my pain is gone, I do have pain, but it's not like it was." The new Spine Center at Bingham Memorial is the only hospital in Idaho to provide this type of surgery.
http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbcheadlines.cfm&ID=14809
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given you."
Gandolf the Great