Summary
A patient who hunts, fishes, golfs and bikes had been bedridden about 22 hours a day for over 10 months with excruciating back pain. Before finding Deuk Spine Institute, he tried other providers’ treatments, including an RFA that was supposed to give at least six months of relief and gave none, because it treated facet pain when his pain came from the disc. He had the Deuk Laser Disc Repair® through a tiny incision, and at his eight-day follow-up he said the pain was instantly gone and his back felt cured. He has already recommended the procedure to two people and is back to the activities he loves.
Transcript
Patient: What I would say to your prospective patients: don’t have any doubts, don’t mess around with the other guys. Come to the guy who has the knowledge and the skill and the facility to get it done right the first time. You will save yourself a lot of pain and hassle. I suffered in excruciating pain for over 10 months and it was instantly gone after my surgery. I cannot be more blessed or thankful for Dr. Deuk.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Good afternoon. I’m Dr. Ara Deukmedjian, CEO and founder of the Deuk Spine Institute, here with one of my patients who had back pain and underwent the Deuk Laser Disc Repair® just one week ago, eight days ago as he says. So you came back to visit us. How are you feeling today?
Patient: Incredibly well. I like to call it my “Dr. Deuk’s ice pick-ectomy” that he did on my lower back. I’m a very happy customer.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Tell us about that. Why do you say you had an ice pick in your back? What was going on there?
Patient: Because I did not find you at first and I went to the other guys. I did the RFA, which is supposed to give at least six months of relief. I got zero relief. I don’t know if it made it worse, but it sure didn’t improve.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Well, they treated the wrong thing. RFAs are for facet pain, and you had disc pain. You can’t fix disc pain by treating the facets, so they didn’t make the right diagnosis, unfortunately.
Patient: I found out the hard way. What I would say to your prospective patients: don’t have any doubts, don’t mess around with the other guys. Come to the guy who has the knowledge and the skill and the facility to get it done right the first time. You will save yourself a lot of pain and hassle. I suffered in excruciating pain for over 10 months and it was instantly gone after my surgery. I cannot be more blessed or thankful for Dr. Deuk.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: And if you continue this way, you would say your back pain has been cured?
Patient: Absolutely, without a doubt.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Good, that’s what we aim to do. What was life like for you before the Deuk Laser Disc Repair® surgery?
Patient: Well, my sister described it: he laid in bed 22 hours a day.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: That’s no life.
Patient: No.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: And what are you going to do now that your back is fixed?
Patient: I hunt, I fish, I golf, I ride my 10-speed bicycle. I was an active person. This back pain was a death sentence for me.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: And you went to Portugal, right?
Patient: We went to Portugal, and doggone it, my wife beat me into back surgery. Her situation was like a movie script. She was nosing around a piece of property we were considering buying and she fell two stories into an abandoned wine vat and broke her back at L1 and broke her left tibia. So our month-long vacation in Portugal turned into seven weeks. Fortunately she got as good care as was possible in Portugal, and she’s having no residuals.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: And he didn’t buy the house. That’s a message from God right there. But you came to Deuk Spine and you got your back fixed, and you didn’t have to have a fusion. If you watch here in the video, you can actually see the small, tiny incision that we made, and we did endoscopic surgery. We used a laser to clean out the torn disc and repair it using the Deuk Laser Disc Repair® technique. Would you recommend this treatment to anyone else?
Patient: I’ve already recommended it to two. The thing you’ve got to understand, folks, is perfection and quality don’t come cheap. I had one friend who was having back pain and he just didn’t have the means. But I have another friend I’m recommending, who has had a lifetime of cervical pain, that I am certain Dr. Deuk can alleviate as well. He’s a very successful person, so he won’t have any trouble whether insurance kicks in for him or not.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: I appreciate you saying that. And what I’ve discovered over the years, and I hope to pass on to people, is that back and neck pain have very specific causes, and they’re really not that difficult to figure out. The majority of back and neck pain, around 85 percent, comes from a damaged disc or two, maybe three, depending on the individual. But the point is 85 percent of chronic back or neck pain comes from disc problems, and those are easy to fix with the Deuk Laser Disc Repair®. Fifteen percent of back pain or neck pain comes from the facet joints. The facet joints are small joints in the back next to the disc. You have a right and a left, and if you’re having facet pain it’s usually worse with twisting and rotation, and it’ll be lateralized to one side, and the doctor can find tenderness over the joint. So if you just take facet pain and disc pain, which Deuk Spine has permanent treatments for both, you get rid of right there 95 percent of chronic pain in the back or neck. The other five percent are things like piriformis syndrome, sacroiliitis, and sometimes fractures of the spine. Those are easy to find, and most doctors can treat fractures without having to come here. The point is that the biggest challenge is people just don’t get the right diagnosis, and therefore they don’t get the right treatment. Once you know the right diagnosis, the treatment becomes quite easy to do. Well, anything you want to say to your fans out there? Wrap it up.
Patient: I don’t know about having any fans, but don’t stay in pain, and seek the right source of alleviating your pain. This guy’s the real deal.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Yeah, thank you very much. It means a lot to me to be able to help people like you get out of pain, and now you’re going to go live life and enjoy life.
Patient: Absolutely, positively. Thank you, Dr. Deuk. Congratulations.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: You’re welcome. It’s my pleasure.
Deuk Laser Disc Repair® at Deuk Spine Institute
This patient underwent the Deuk Laser Disc Repair® at Deuk Spine Institute for disc pain that had kept him in bed about 22 hours a day for over 10 months. An earlier radiofrequency ablation had given no relief, because it targets facet pain rather than the disc. Dr. Deukmedjian used a laser endoscopically through a tiny incision to clean out the torn disc, and at his eight-day follow-up the pain was gone. As Dr. Deukmedjian explains, about 85% of chronic back and neck pain comes from the disc and about 15% from the facet joints, which the Deuk Plasma Rhizotomy treats. Patients can submit their MRI for a complimentary MRI review and virtual consultation with Dr. Deukmedjian.