Michigan Patient Ends 10 Years of Back Pain with DLDR®
Summary
After more than 10 years of chronic back pain, a patient from Michigan travels to Florida for specialized treatment at Deuk Spine Institute. Following successful Deuk Laser Disc Repair® weeks earlier, lingering pain was traced to piriformis syndrome and sacroiliac joint inflammation. Using minimally invasive Deuk Plasma Rhizotomy® and Deuk Laser Piriformis Release®, Dr. Deukmedjian permanently eliminated the remaining pain. The patient reports complete relief, no leg pain, and a full return to normal life—highlighting how identifying and treating multiple pain generators can truly cure chronic back pain.
Transcript
Dr. Deukmedjian: Good morning. I'm Dr. Deukmedjian. I'm here with one of my patients who traveled from Michigan to Florida. He has had back pain for over 10 years, and he had a piriformis muscle tear as well as sacroiliac joint injury which caused inflammation. And so, we went in and did a sacroiliac joint rhizotomy. Deuk Plasma Rhizotomy®. It's only available at Deuk Spine and we did the Deuk Piriformis Muscle Release® minimally invasive. You can see it's all done with a 4mm tiny incision, and the piriformis muscle was torn and inflamed, and it was irritating his sciatic nerve which runs right through the piriformis muscle on its way down the leg. How are you feeling now after you underwent your procedure?
Patient: Oh, I've been, I feel great. It's surprising that I would have no pain whatsoever down my right leg. All the pain in my lower back has gone completely. It's just been awesome experience.
Dr. Deukmedjian: Now, you were here 6 weeks ago because you had a different kind of back pain. You had pain coming from damaged discs. We went in and used the laser to repair those damaged discs and that back pain went away. Right.
Patient: Absolutely. It was It was like right in the center. For my back, just, that area completely went right away.
Dr. Deukmedjian: And that's about 6 weeks 7 weeks ago that we did that surgery.
Patient: Yes.
Dr. Deukmedjian: And that pain's gone. But you came back with a different kind of pain.
Patient: Different, different back pain. It was a little bit further out, not in the center. So, but then I had the pain down the leg.
Dr. Deukmedjian: Yeah. So, he had a right piriformis syndrome and a right sacroiliac joint inflammation. And those were being masked basically by the disc pain which once we fixed his disc pain with the Deuk Laser Disc Repair® he realized, oh, I still have some symptoms in there lower down. He came back and we just fixed those. And how are you today?
Patient: I'm doing great. It's wonderful. I really recommend Dr. Deuk and the whole institute's great. The people are super nice, really helpful, really attentive. I really recommend it.
Dr. Deukmedjian: Why did you come to Florida? Why not Michigan? I mean, you live in a great state. There's great medicine up there. Was there no one up there that could fix you?
Patient: There was nobody. You know, I looked for this procedure. My sister took the time to help me look. She's really good at checking this stuff out and looking online. I couldn't find a doctor that could do the procedures that you could do that Dr. Deuk does.
Dr. Deukmedjian: So, right, doctors are happy to offer patients treatments that don't work like fusions, laminectomy, discectomy, and spinal cord stimulators. There's literally hundreds of spine procedures out there that do not cure people's back or neck and there's only three that do. That's why you came to Deuk Spine because they the cure was here and it was minimally invasive.
Patient: Definitely worth it.
Dr. Deukmedjian: Happy with your choice?
Patient: I sure am.
Dr. Deukmedjian: Well, go enjoy your life and hopefully we'll never see you again.
Patient: All right. Thank you very much.
Dr. Deukmedjian: All right. You're welcome.
The Better Way: Deuk Laser Disc Repair® (DLDR)
For patients suffering from debilitating pain with multiple pain sources, my revolutionary procedures offer a safer way to alleviate neck or back pain without risk of collateral damage. This patient underwent two specialized procedures at Deuk Spine Institute. First, Deuk Laser Disc Repair® (DLDR) was performed to eliminate disc-related pain through a minimally invasive endoscopic approach using a precision laser to repair damaged discs. Six weeks later, he returned for Deuk Plasma Rhizotomy® of the sacroiliac joint and a minimally invasive Deuk Piriformis Muscle Release®, both performed through a 4mm incision. These procedures avoid muscles, nerves, ligaments, tendons, and joints, preserving natural function while eliminating pain permanently. Deuk Plasma Rhizotomy® is only available at Deuk Spine Institute. After surgery, patients wake up to immediate relief with minimal scarring.
