Summary
A local patient from Palm Bay, Florida had lived with lower back pain and pain running down his legs for five years, including four years after three fusions at L1 through L5 performed by local surgeons. When he returned to them still in pain, he was told there was little to do and that it would heal on its own. He came to Deuk Spine Institute for the Deuk Laser Disc Repair® at L5-S1, where Dr. Deukmedjian cleaned out a bad herniation with jelly stuck in a tear. The outpatient surgery took about an hour, and he was ready to go home 20 minutes after leaving the operating room, the fastest recovery the team had seen. The next day he reported being 100% better and looked forward to walking again with his wife.
Transcript
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: CEO and founder of the Deuk Spine Institute here in Melbourne, Florida, and I have one of my patients who actually is not from very far away. You’re one of our local patients.
Patient: Yep, Palm Bay.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Palm Bay. And you came here yesterday for surgery. You had the Deuk Laser Disc Repair®, endoscopic surgery with the laser to repair your L5-S1 disc. How are you feeling today?
Patient: 100% better.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: That’s awesome. So the pain that you’ve been living with for years in your lower back, is that still there?
Patient: Five years I’ve had pain running down my legs, and as of yesterday I don’t have it anymore. It’s gone.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Awesome. And you’ve been up walking around?
Patient: Yes.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: We didn’t do this in the hospital. We did it outpatient. It took an hour to do, and you were ready to go home in 20 minutes.
Patient: Yes, I was.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: You were the fastest recovery we’ve had. Twenty minutes from the time he left the operating room, he was ready to go home. And of course your lovely wife, who’s been by your side through your back pain all these years, was there as well. How does she feel about this?
Patient: She feels great about it. She likes it when I’m happy.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: And you haven’t been happy in a while.
Patient: Now, four years I’ve had three surgeries that haven’t worked.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Who did those other surgeries?
Patient: Local doctors here in Melbourne.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: And it was a fusion you had done?
Patient: Yeah, three fusions, L1 through L5, and they just kept going, more fusions.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: More fusions. And then of course you went to them recently and said, “I’m still in pain, what should be done?” And what did they say?
Patient: There wasn’t much to do. It would just heal itself.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: So basically they told you there’s nothing they could do to fix you.
Patient: Yes.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: And what did we do yesterday? We did the Deuk Laser Disc Repair®.
Patient: It’s amazing. It really is, what the right surgery will do.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: What are you going to do now that you’re feeling better?
Patient: Well, I have to take it easy for a little while, but it’s going to be nice to be able to walk around. Me and my wife love walking and I just haven’t been able to do any of that, so this is going to be great for both of us.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Awesome. Well, you can see here in your surgery, we are inside your disc, and you had a pretty bad herniation there at L5-S1. A lot of the jelly was stuck in a tear causing back pain, and I cleaned it all out. You went through so much. The scar on your back from your fusion is like 12 inches long, and you have other scars next to it where they took bone out of your hip to do the fusion, and all that scar tissue created a lot of problems during the surgery we did to get into L4-5. But I’m very happy that your pain is gone, and I think it’s going to stay that way. Is there anything you want to say to your fans out there?
Patient: Come see Dr. Deuk.
Dr. Ara Deukmedjian: Very good. I appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Enjoy your life.
Patient: Thank you.
Deuk Laser Disc Repair® at Deuk Spine Institute
This patient underwent the Deuk Laser Disc Repair® at Deuk Spine Institute for a herniated disc at L5-S1 that remained painful after three prior spinal fusions from L1 through L5. Dr. Deukmedjian used a laser endoscopically to clean the tear and remove the herniated material, working around scar tissue from the earlier fusion surgeries. The outpatient procedure took about an hour, and the patient was ready to go home 20 minutes after leaving the operating room. Patients told nothing more can be done after failed back surgery can submit their MRI for a complimentary MRI review and virtual consultation with Dr. Deukmedjian.