Lower Back Herniated Disc Pain Relief with Dr Ekberg

Hello I'm Dr. Sten Ekberg and this is Tony.

And he has joined us to share a little bit about his experiences in this office, so Tony

you want to tell us.

It was your low back primarily right?

It was in the lower center of my back where I had chronic pain primarily when I was standing.,

Okay and that you said that first started back in the 70s?

Yea I used to work in a steal mill and I hurt my back working on the furnace and I had a

herniated disc and different I had some injections back then but it seemed like it resolved itself

over the next 20-30 years, but as I started to age the back pain started to return around

2000 and I went to see an orthopedic surgeon and he did the surgery and that seemed to

help for awhile, but then it returned and went to see another chiropractor had some

injections helped for just a short period of time but then it returned again.

Which lead me to your office.

Okay.

So when you came in here you had back pain for the most part for about 15 years?

Yes.

Tell us what happened when you started here.

Well when I came here you explained your methodology and how basically we are working with the

brain to try to help it be retrained in terms of the pain that is being generated by your

body and so i thought that was really intriguing and i was a little bit skeptical I remember

our first discussion you said Well the proof is in the pudding and so lets just give it

a try and see what happens, so I know that there is a lot of things we don't understand

about the body and the brain so I was willing to give it a try and your back ground in knowing

about the body with your athletic career was also very compelling information for me to

come here so we gave it a try.

Very good.

So how many visits before you started noticing some significant changes?

I would say probably within maybe 4-6 visits.

Okay.

I think I was coming 3 times a week in the beginning so within 2-3 weeks I started to

tell that things were subsiding.

And now the pain is gone?

It's pretty much gone.You know I'm a 61 years old and my body has gone through some wear

and tear over the time so if i sit too long or lay on the wrong mattress or do anything

that causes discomfort for most people it is problematic but once I am up and moving