Key Facts A Veterans Day Conversation About Not Giving Up This Veterans Day, we’re honoring the strength and perseverance of those who have served, including Navy veteran Dana, whose nearly 20-year journey with chronic back pain is a powerful reminder that even the most complicated spine conditions don’t have to define your future. A former…
Key Facts For Dilhan Wasantha, tennis was more than a sport. It was the future he’d spent his entire life working toward. But just as the UK’s top-ranked junior tennis player was preparing to turn professional, debilitating back pain and nerve pain down his legs brought his dreams to a halt. What began as pain…
Key Facts You’ve seen a surgeon, maybe two, and the answers didn’t match. That inconsistency is real, and it isn’t a sign you’ve done anything wrong. Dr. Good faces it too: “When I show my spine MRI to one of my colleagues, I get different opinions [on] what I should do, and I’m a spine…
Key Facts For years, Libbi Logan planned her life around calculating her next move and how it would impact her pain. If she went to her son’s game tonight, could she work tomorrow? If she played tennis, what would it cost her afterward? Today she is back to being active and doesn’t have to plan…
Chronic back pain in men can affect work, family, fitness, your mental health, and the ability to show up for the moments that matter. During Men’s Health Month, this VSI patient story is a powerful reminder that pushing through pain is not always strength and asking for help is not weakness. Tim is an active…
Key Takeaways: Chronic Back Pain, Motherhood, and Hope Women Who Spend Decades Searching for Answers May is Women’s Health Month, focusing on the challenges and solutions to living with pain while managing motherhood – and all of the joys and demands that bring. Motherhood is filled with a lot of joy. The first steps. The…
Disc Replacement vs. Spinal Fusion: Quick Takeaways Disc replacement or spinal fusion surgery: It is one of the most common and yet most confusing decisions patients face when spine surgery becomes part of the conversation. In this episode of Get Back to Your Life®, VSI spine surgeon Dr. Colin Haines and physical therapist Larry Grine…
Key Takeaways If you are trying to figure out what to do about back pain, you are not alone. Many patients reach a point where they are researching diagnoses, wondering whether they have the full picture, and trying to understand whether conservative care, surgery, or something in between makes the most sense. This Get Back…
Key Takeaways A love of basketball runs deep. Once you’ve played the game, it’s hard to give it up. That’s why so many adults are part of recreational basketball leagues – long after they’ve stopped competing as student athletes. But beware! Americans are more likely to injure themselves playing basketball than any other sport. For…
Discovering Disc Replacement: Key Takeaways What should you do if you’ve been told you need a spinal fusion? This episode of the Get Back To Your Life® podcast follows Nick, a patient from Chicago and lifelong athlete who spent more than half his life managing back pain that kept returning in cycles of endless pain….
