I have experienced back problems since I was about 25 when we did our first move. Three car accidents that happened about 10 years ago only served to aggravate my situation
After several months of chiropractic care and massage therapy I have been relatively pain free until about 3 months ago. After about 9 months of extraordinary stress and increased overtime at work that kept me away from the gym, my back began giving me problems again. Usually an ice pack, a muscle relaxant and a pain killer and some sleep would take care of the problem, but this time it got progressively worse. I worked through the pain and began using a cane to walk.
Then one day I got out of bed and could barely walk with the cane. Standing for more than about 2 minutes would cause severe sciatic pain, cramping in the leg muscles and numbness in the foot. Lying down would relieve the symptoms for a short period of time. Then even lying down was becoming uncomfortable. The doctor increased the level of the pain killers and anti¬inflammatory medications but nothing was working. I wasn't able to sleep and my wife was having to drive me to my doctor appointments. I was able to get an MRI done and that revealed that I had a ruptured disc between L4 and L5 and the beginnings of one between L5 and S 1. The doctor referred me to a neurosurgeon and told me to go ahead and keep taking my pain medications and that we would deal with the addiction after I had surgery. He did prescribe a 5 day round of steroids which began to bring some relief within about 12 hours.
My wife began searching the internet for alternatives to surgery and found the Spinal Aid website. With the testimonials and proven 80%+ success rate we began looking for someone close by who offered the treatment. We called Spinal Aid and they told us that Dr. Nahali was located just 5 miles away. We called immediately and set an appointment for the next day.
My experience with Dr. Nahali and his staff has been very good. They have worked around my schedule and now I'm about 1/2 through my round of treatments. I am feeling progressively better with some small setbacks along the way. I am pain free today with a bit of numbness remaining in my leg and hopeful to have that go away before the treatments are through.
