Summary
A Persian chef from Dallas, Texas had been suffering from chronic back pain for nearly two years, including 11 months of constant daily pain following a microdiscectomy at another facility that provided no relief. After coming to Deuk Spine Institute, Dr. Deukmedjian identified three distinct sources of his pain — the disc, the sacroiliac joint, and the facet joints — and treated all three in a single visit using the Deuk Laser Disc Repair® and the Deuk Plasma Rhizotomy® for the SI joint. The day after his procedure, the patient was completely pain-free, on no pain medication, and in such good spirits that he broke into a Persian dance on camera to celebrate his results.
Transcript
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: I’m Dr. Deukmedjian. I’m here with a patient who came from Dallas, Texas. He suffered with chronic back pain for almost two years. He’s had surgery before he came here. He had a microdiscectomy, which didn’t work. It didn’t work at all. Yesterday, he underwent the Deuk Laser Disc Repair® and the Deuk Plasma Rhizotomy® for the SI joint (sacroiliac joint). He had a lot of pain in the sacroiliac joint. You still have your back pain today?
Patient: I can dance right now. I can walk. I’m really good.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: You want to dance? Why not? Show us a little dance.
Patient: Why not? That’s a Persian dance.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: I love it. All right. You’re Persian, obviously, and I know you’re a chef.
Patient: Yes, sir.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: And we’ve talked about my favorite food — ghormeh sabzi. I like that. You can see he’s smiling today. Yesterday, before surgery, he wasn’t smiling.
Patient: I can say about 11 months after my first surgery, every day I’m in pain, every second I’m in pain. Now it’s pain-free. Pain-free. Nothing.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: It’s not because we have you on medicine, right? We don’t have you on medicine.
Patient: No, I don’t have any medicine. No medicine.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: It’s because we fixed the source of your pain, which turned out to be three places — the SI joint, the disc, and the facets — and we treated all three of those. How do you feel today?
Patient: Beautiful.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Yeah?
Patient: Beautiful. I really appreciate you. Thank you so much.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: You’re welcome. Are you ready to go back home?
Patient: Yes. I just want to thank you and your whole staff. Angels. All of them. Angels. I really commend everybody who has pain about many, many years — just come here.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Well, say it in Farsi for me.
Patient: He is the only one in America — maybe in the world — he does this surgery.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: That’s right. Nobody else does it. We pioneered it. We figured it out. Thank you so much. Congratulations.
Patient: Thank you. Thank you. Take care. And thank you for the gift.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: You’re welcome. I appreciate it.
Deuk Laser Disc Repair®& Deuk Plasma Rhizotomy®
This patient underwent both the Deuk Laser Disc Repair® (DLDR) and the Deuk Plasma Rhizotomy® for the sacroiliac joint at Deuk Spine Institute — a comprehensive same-visit treatment addressing three distinct sources of his chronic lower back pain: the herniated disc, the SI joint, and the facet joints. The Deuk Laser Disc Repair® uses a minimally invasive laser to debride annular tears and remove inflammatory tissue, while the Deuk Plasma Rhizotomy® (DPR) targets and eliminates the nerve pain signals generated by the sacroiliac joint. Both procedures are performed on an outpatient basis with no hospitalization and no narcotic pain medication, and were pioneered exclusively at Deuk Spine Institute.