But then as put more and more strain on my spine due to my work and sports/workouts, the pain would have started back and most likely would have been worse than before the surgery! Why? Because my spinal instability would have been made worse with the surgery.” For six months or a year I may have felt better. After three Prolotherapy treatments, he was fine and was able to get back to cycling, running and swimming.Īgain, in his own words, “What would have happened if I had chosen a decompressive surgery to open up the space? Would it have made my spine more stable or less stable? By removing bone to open up the space I would have made my spine less stable, so my situation would have been worse than at the beginning. In his own words “When I was stationary or flexing my neck I was fine, as the nerve root had plenty of room within the neural foramina but when I extended my neck, the space closed and the pain went zinging down my arm.” The space narrowed because the ligaments holding the adjacent vertebrae at the facet joints were injured. Ross Hauser’s Digital Motion X-ray showed the neural foramina closed at multiple levels, thus compressing the nerve roots and causing symptoms. In our Medical Director’s specific case of a pinched nerve back in 2011, decades after whiplash stemming from a severe car accident when he was a teenager, Dr. Understandably, as they cause increased disability and can lead to depression, anxiety, irritability, and memory problems which lead to difficulties at home and work, often while the patient is searching relentlessly for answers– Digital Motion X-ray (DMX) can often provide the doctor and patient the answers to these strange clusters of symptoms. Unfortunately, these symptoms frequently worsen over time, even if they were only mild immediately following the whiplash or other trauma. These can include facial numbness, vertigo, dizziness, tinnitus (ringing in the ears), burning sensations, fatigue, racing heart, exhaustion, weakness, pressure in the sinuses and behind the eyes, and others. While headaches and neck pain are usually the top patient complaints, the related symptoms that can be triggered by cervical instability are extensive. If you have questions about your specific head and neck pain, and to have our team review your case, email us directly.Often this is triggered from a sudden accident such as whiplash injury or post-concussion syndrome, but can also be due to short stresses on the cervical spine over a long period of time, such as overmanipulation, and extended hours of poor posture from computer usage. One of the primary areas of the body that we specialize in treating is the neck, or cervical spine.
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