Colorado Mom Ends Neck Pain with Cervical Laser Surgery
Summary
A Colorado mother of four who homeschools her children traveled to Deuk Spine Institute suffering from severe neck pain, debilitating headaches, and arm pain caused by two herniated cervical discs that prevented her from doing laundry, caring for her children, or sleeping. After a failed epidural treatment worsened her condition and a local surgeon dismissed her questions about alternatives to spinal fusion, she researched and chose the cervical Deuk Laser Disc Repair® procedure—a minimally invasive treatment using a four-millimeter incision and endoscopic laser technology to repair her discs in one hour without hospitalization or fusion hardware. The results were immediate: she experienced complete relief from all pain and headaches without medication, slept through the night for the first time in months, and found that the anxiety and depression associated with chronic pain had completely lifted, allowing her to return to her active family life including attending her sons' hockey games and resuming her role as a homeschooling mother.
Transcript
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: We're at the Deuk Spine Institute with a patient who traveled here from Colorado with her husband and she underwent the cervical Deuk Laser Disc Repair® for two herniated discs in her neck. And how are you feeling today?
Patient: Great. Even on the way home I felt all the pain release from my arms and my shoulders. I didn't realize how much pain I was actually in. So my arms just feel light and sitting in the waiting room here earlier I realized my neck is not hurting at all and my headache is gone.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: So your headaches are gone, your neck pain is gone, and your arms are starting to feel normal again.
Patient: Yes.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Amazing, isn't it?
Patient: Yes. So amazing. I'm so grateful.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Tell me what life was like for you before you came to Deuk Spine Institute.
Patient: We have four small children and it was very hard because we homeschool. My oldest started taking over laundry. I couldn't get in to the washer to get the clothes out. He has to help a lot with the little ones with school. I was in bed a lot with pain and laying down hurt. So then I would sit up in the recliner and I wasn't sleeping at all. Last night I slept.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Congratulations. Now, are you feeling good here today because we gave you lots of pain medicines or are you on any pain meds at all?
Patient: No, I didn't even take ibuprofen. I think in the IV there was Tylenol. I didn't even take the muscle relaxer, no pain meds.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Yeah, the pain meds from surgery wore off yesterday. And today your body has no pain meds and you have no pain?
Patient: No pain.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Congratulations.
Patient: Thank you.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Now, it must be hard with such a severe debilitating neck pain and headaches when you have kids because you know, your whole life is all about having kids and bringing them up and engaging with them and being part of their life. And when you have pain like that, it takes your time away from your kids. It takes your quality of life away. So you had to do something about that. And did you have any treatment in Colorado?
Patient: They wanted me to do an epidural on the neck because there was no room in the spinal cord that made it worse because the fluid had nowhere to go. So I did that and then the surgeon in Colorado wanted me to do a fusion and basically laughed when I asked if there were other options. So that's when it led us to do more research and watch all of his videos and know, I just knew in my gut, this is where we had to come.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Yeah, you're right. I'm glad you did not choose the fusion. But why did you not choose the fusion? What were you worried about?
Patient: I was worried that I have four young children and if I do a fusion, it would be worse. And then it would just keep continuing all the next discs. And I was really having like a claustrophobic feeling of I won't have any movement. I'll lose my mobility if I do a fusion.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: And with the Deuk Laser Disc Repair®, you can see we went in with a four millimeter incision. There was no bleeding. There was no hospitalization. She was asleep for an hour while we did her procedure and you basically woke up pain free.
Patient: Yes. I was actually very emotional when I woke up because I was like, our whole family needs to come here. All of our parents are in pain. So this is where you need to come.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: We'll take good care of them here. We'll share with the audience watching what life is going to be like for you now and anything you want to tell the audience.
Patient: I feel like when you're in chronic pain for so long, you start to have anxiety, have maybe a little bit of depression and all of that has completely lifted. And I think doctors will be like, oh, you're just depressed. Take this medicine. But that's not what it is. It's the pain, the chronic pain. So I know that my quality of life will be much better now. My two boys play hockey and there were so many times I couldn't sit in the stands. So it's just really exciting.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Congratulations. All right. Well, enjoy your life with your family.
Patient: Thank you.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Let's get out of here.
The Deuk Spine Difference
This patient received Deuk Laser Disc Repair® to treat two herniated discs in her neck that were causing severe neck pain, debilitating headaches, and arm pain. Using a minimally invasive endoscopic laser technique with a four-millimeter incision, Dr. Ara Deukmedjian, addressed the disc herniations without the need for spinal fusion, hospitalization, or extended recovery. The one-hour outpatient procedure eliminated her chronic pain immediately, allowing her to return to caring for her four children and resume normal activities like attending her son's hockey games—all without pain medication.
