"He Saved My Life!" TLIF Patient Shares His Story | Deuk Spine Institute

[@mikesaunders287]

This man has suffered so much I feel his pain in his voice I wish him the best and a beautiful rest of his life

[@DeukSpineInstitute]

Thank you for your kind thoughts.

[@brianna3668]

So much tears right now!! I feel his pain and I’m so happy I found Dr. Duek thank you Jesus 🙏🏻❤️ I’m 36 yr old Mom of 4 beautiful girls. today just got the worse news about my L4 & L5 discs and was told I need surgery to replace these discs! Omg not what I was expecting. Supposed to have an epidural injection Monday but really thinking I’m going to cancel. It’s very risky. I pray I can see Dr. Duek very soon 🙏🏻❤️ with love from Tulsa, OK. God bless you doctor

[@DeukSpineInstitute]

God bless. We can help you.

[@Mad_MAGA_Mickey]

Im in tears right now watching this...6 herniations from cervical to the L5/S1 and 5 bulging discs from cervical into the thorasic spine with immense pain. I am calling your office tomorrow. I live in Tampa so only basically a two hour drive...3 years dealing with this pain. I look forward to making this video as well, thanking you for giving me my life back as well sir🙏🏻❤️

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

We can help you too.

[@Mad_MAGA_Mickey]

​@aradeukmedjian5957 I came, met you, cried like a baby and working on putting the money together to do it with you❤❤❤

[@williamlebeau3651]

The emotional thankfulness is awesome

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

Thank you

[@HummingbirdHoller]

Awesome testimony! Congratulations on your successful surgery. Now go and enjoy your life! Thank you Dr Deuk for what you do every day. You change people's lives! ❣️

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

Thank you for your kindness

[@jeffcarlson911]

​@aradeukmedjian5957 Hello Dr Deuk. I had a virtual call with you yesterday about my cervical mri and was trying to get some kind of a breakdown document that I could present to my insurance company. Also, might be able to pay cash for the procedure if I had something with a clear diagnosis, costs, and a plan. I was told you had to many patients to do that and only get some kind of written plan or breakdown sheet if you make a initial payment. I also explained this in my letter and I thought you mentioned doing that at the end of the call. If this isn't a possibility, then maybe down the road sometime I will be able to afford the procedure. It was nice talking with you and God bless!

[@DeukSpineInstitute]

Jeff did you get what you need?@@jeffcarlson911

[@jeffcarlson911]

@DeukSpineInstitute Richard was very kind to give me a email that had the recommendation Dr Deuk suggested, but unfortunately I would need something more to convince my insurance company to cover the costs. They didn't seem to respond with just the email. Would be awesome to have some kind of breakdown sheet with diagnosis, costs, etc. As you know insurance companies can be very difficult. Thank you for the response

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

Richard will reach out today@@jeffcarlson911

[@Joyinmyheart66]

Love your happy ending story.

[@HummingbirdHoller]

My sister is coming to you next month for surgery Hooray! I am so excited for her.

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

Thank you for sharing. We will take the best care of her

[@AliBabaZumba]

How'd it go??

[@stevenwilliams1423]

How is your sister doing now?

[@ramonesmith2864]

Doctor Duek boss of all bosses

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

You are truly too kind. We hope for a wold without pain

[@canes-25]

This one busted me up 💙

[@HummingbirdHoller]

Me too

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

This was a 5 level lumbar fusion done outpatient. Whew

[@canes-25]

@@aradeukmedjian5957 I watched it live! My friend you are the number one spine surgeon in world hands down and someday they won't have a choice but to put you in history books stating so. I know u could care less as long as you keep healing but it's true.,...What you do is so admirable sir!

[@AliBabaZumba]

I've seen you comment on live videos, are you getting a procedure done?@@canes-25

[@katygirl9221]

Can you help me. I think I need a spinal cord stimulater.

[@liftpeopleup]

This patient is preaching to the choir. I have seen so many Dr's and I can't walk straight I have neuropathy sciatica all from a herniated disc in November 2022

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

Deuk spine institute can help you get out of pain permanently

[@katygirl9221]

God Bless him. Doc please help me! My husband is sad about me. We are a military family fought in the war for our country! I can't take the pain anymore! The narcotics are not helping! Oh dear God help me. 🇺🇸

[@vzeller]

This is so great. TLIF seems to be the answer for many cases. Why don't you do ALIF surgery?

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

TLIF is dangerous but ALIF is far more dangerous

[@vzeller]

@@aradeukmedjian5957 I see. What are the main reasons for that?

[@scaricatladi]

That's great. I want to talk to this person 10 years down the road. My TLIF from 2012 that Dr. Deuk did, gave me the wonderful gift of arachnoiditis. I now get to deal with many DR's who don't know arachnoiditis. (I have had to show Dr's what it looks like on my MRI.) I have adjacent segment disease right above my fusion, a herniated disk in my thoracic area somehow and SI joint pain. I got a a spinal cord stimulator 2 years ago and the leads already migrated, so it doesn't work. I'm living my life in bed, in pain 24/7 that gets so bad, it makes me shiver.

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

Sorry but TLIF doesnt cause arachnoiditis. If you have arachnoiditis then you got it from one of the many other doctors that "treated" you that you mentioned in your post.

[@benji3048]

hi, i have a c6-c7 light stretching, im from madrid, spain, soon travelling to australia, how much does this surgery cost more or less? it looks great :), actually my mom has a few hernias, and does stretchings every morning because she doesnt want surgery and my moms gardner was telling me hes gonna get a disc replacement soon, it would be so great we all got fixed and came back home perfectly :)

[@benji3048]

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[@NovaLions117]

Do have any testimonials on the long term effect of your laser duke surgery for disk. It says in medical "fact" that damage to a disk in nature is permanent. Your saying that's incorrect because doctors today havnt been able to clean out a disc get rid of the dead tissue without damaging the healthy tissue. And you can So would that mean your the only surgeon in america doing this. You could save my father's life but he is stubborn. He doesn't see how the the disc can heal, and I can find a single testimony that is a two year update they are all the next day. What I'm trying to figure out is how the duke laser disc repaired isnt making the disc flatter there for making your facet joints grind over time.. what are your thoughts on that ?

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

The Deuk laser disc repair does not remove disc, it removes herniation, scar tissue and painful inflammatory tissue within the annular tear. It is unique and the only surgery of its kind. We have been doing this for 16 years with thousands of satisfied patients. They get fixed and leave and we rarely see them again

[@NovaLions117]

@@aradeukmedjian5957 Ok thankyou. One more question. The collapsed disc height on ddd does the after toubdo the laser repair deride the annual tear clear out scar tissue get everything preventing the annual tear from healing what happens 9 to 12 months later after the tear heals does the disc puff back up and regain some heighth of does it stay collapsed forever?if so would that cause the facet joints in (I'm referring to the civical region of your spine) to wear out over time ?

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

@@NovaLions117 No surgery, No surgeon, No procedure can give you back normal discs. The goal of successful treatment is to eliminate unwanted symptoms. Deuk Laser disc repair is the only procedure in the world that does that safely, without unnatural solutions like fusion. Fusion and TDR only work in rare circumstances when they are done perfectly right and they cause tissue trauma, scar tissue, pain, loss of movement and complications. Deuk Laser Disc Repair naturally repairs what is wrong. Disc height will never go back to normal and it doesnt cause any symptoms.

[@NovaLions117]

I may a few more questions thankyou for replying. I'm 27 years old I've already had two neck surgeries. I was an amiture golfer getting ready to turn pro I was averaging in the high 70s to low 70s After a car accident when I was 19 Dr James ronzo replaced my c6/c7 bulging disc with a Bryan artifical disc I awoke from the surgery in so much pain they held me down and shot me up with something to knock me out. When I woke up sever hours later I was still in agony they said it was from the procedure it's self. A year went by were was contemplating suicide because the pain so sever on a scale of 1 to 10 it was a 30. And never went away. I saw several doctor that specialized in artifical disc they all said I was fine. I had to wait three months and set an appointment to see my original surgeon who said "your pain isn't from this wile he showed me an xray of my neck I pleaded with him told him when I closed my eyes and imagined an out like of by body my neck lit up my instincts told me something was wrong with the disc. He dismissed me in all of two minutes. I got worse to the point I didn't wanna wall to to the bath room. I couldn't sweep and make love to my wife. 3 years after he out the disc in I figured out it was actual oversized. I learned that he was supposed to put a disc in close to the origin height maybe little bigger but bore more then 1 mm greater then the corresponding disk. So if t1 is 4.9 mm in height and c4/c5 is 5.2 he should have chose a 5mm disc. I discovered through dicom computer program measuring tool my wife who is a nurse showed me. That the disc he implanted was 10 mm in height.gathered every image I have had of my neck xray CT scan CT With contrast mri and I lined them up in the order they were taking and I was able to see very Cleary. five months after he put the disk in the extra 5 m in height pushed up causing my c4/c5 disk to herniated three months later I could were my neck had straightedge and my c3/4 herniated. At that point my wing tips or facet joints in the back of my neck were touching. I went to two specialist in revision of artifical disc. One of them said it was clearly oversized and had began a fusion process and recommended I have it taken out and intire neck fused. The other doctor said he didn't want to be responsible for what could happen during the surgery because the Bryan disc wasn't designed to be eve come out so he would have to chizzle it out and he was concerned of removing to much vertibre and causing necrosis of the vertibre. He then told me good look and recommended I continue to seek out help. I finally found I doctor who would have a conversation with me Dr lorio. I convicted to remove the disc by shaving 1 mm of each vertibre and removing it as a whole. After the surgery thankfully I had a none union on the bottom of. Disc so he only Had to remove 1 mm of the above vertibe. He fused me and 7.5 mm in and said he shaved the above two disc that were herniated and injected them with Salem fluid. I came out of the surgery with a constant pain scale of 6 with any activity it flares up to a 10. Dr Todd landman wants remove the fusion putbinba pro disc and replace the above two disc with pro disc as well. I agree that I want the fusion replaced with a disc so I could possibly have my life back and master ⛳ golf. I don't agree with replacing the above two disc based off what I've learned from you. They aren't even causing pain I have no numbness no tingling no weakness the pain does radiate down my arms or back in constant in the back of my neck I can place my finger on the two spots. Removing a fusion cutting my neck open a third time seames crazy if it could be an annuals tear in the above two disc's causing my pain. I'm man of logic by debride the tear and clearing out all the scar tissue and dead tissue with your laser the human body at that point thanks to deuk laser disk repair can heal itself. My only concern is the faccet joints rubbing. Dr Todd landman says that's the cause of my pain only by regaining the original disc height with an artificial disk will my facet joints stop grinding and my pain will go away. I'm sorry I know it's a lot to read. But I'm 27 for 7 years I've been in cronic debilitating pain and I'm scared as fuck ima be like this or worse forever. Your a four hour drive from me. If I set up an appointment am I actually going to get to talk to you directly.

[@NovaLions117]

@@aradeukmedjian5957 I just wanna say I have the upmost respect for you.

[@justuschmiii3173]

Workers comp WILL APPROVE the old traditional butchering but will NOT APPROVE the LASER DISC REPAIR. Also, since I'm in Texas and you're in Florida they will not approve you as my surgeon. I will have to appeal their decision and go to a higher Court

[@aradeukmedjian5957]

I am so sorry to hear this. If you move to Florida they will be forced to allow you to come to a Florida surgeon