Neurosurgery

Steve – Latest Innovations Provide Hope

When Steve was 17 he was in a car accident. Years, and many pain pills later, Steve knew it was time to look for other options. That is when he researched the latest innovations in back pain and found spine surgeon Ardavan Aslie, M.D.
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Anthony – Brave 5-Year-Old & Gamma Knife

When 5-year-old Anthony started complaining about his aching head, his mom Tammy initially thought it was just another headache. But when it got worse, Tammy called 911 and raced her son to the emergency room at Sutter Memorial Hospital.
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Ophelia – Back to Life Without Pain

At age 67, Ophelia, PhD., had a pretty active mind and life. “Then wham,” says Ophelia, “everything changed.” Ophelia was suddenly hit with excruciating pain that would spontaneously flare in different parts of her face. And because the excruciating pain would come unannounced, Ophelia was nervous to drive or go out alone.
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Diane – Survivor of Brain Tumor

Diane is sitting in her living room in Sacramento, watching Sen. Edward Kennedy's medical crisis play out before a worldwide audience. And remembering ... She, too, once felt the terror of a diagnosis of malignant glioblastoma, the same form of cancer that threatens Kennedy's life. She endured the rigors of surgery and radiation and chemotherapy, just as Kennedy faces. And like him, she vowed to fight for her survival.
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Spine Surgery

Caitlin – Trading Scoliosis and Braces for Fashion and Heels

Caitlin, like most teens, has a lot going on with school, friends, cheerleading and staying on top of the latest in fashion. But over the last few years she has also been confronted with scoliosis, wearing braces and the idea of surgery.
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Jaime – Surgery to Marathon

Jaime has been jumping and tumbling since she started gymnastics in the "Mommy and Me" class at age 2. But about seven years ago she started having severe pain. "The pain began in my hips, and then I started having pain and numbness in my lower back and shooting pain down my legs," says Jaime, now 22. "I had trouble sitting for longer than 10 minutes, and it was really hard to concentrate during school."
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Jean – Absolutely Pain Free

"I am absolutely pain-free," says Jean, 57, about the spine surgery he had at Sutter Davis Hospital less than one month earlier.

Quite a liberating experience after three years of severe back pain, six steroid injections, and daily doses of Vicodin and Advil left this ranch operations manager nearly disabled.
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Virginia – From Surgery to Weight Loss

Virginia is an active wife, mother and grandmother who loves bowling, going to her gym and traveling to find the best ingredients for her homemade salsa. But when back and leg pain threatened her weigh-loss goals and left her nearly disabled, Virginia went looking for options.
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Khayla – Collaboration Changes Lives

Khayla was born in the Philippines with a rare kyphoscoliosis condition; a congenital disability called Spondylocarpotarsal syndrome, where her vertebrae were fused together preventing her spine, joints and bones from developing properly. Surgery there resulted in leg paralysis and a progressive curvature of the spine.
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Janine – Work and Play Better Without Pain

Janine Niccoli's eight acres never looked bigger than it did when chronic pain kept her from her chores, horses and dogs. Since 2004 she had been experiencing shooting pain from her back down to her legs. But when her pain started getting in the way of her job as a probation officer, Janine went looking for answers.
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