After realizing I had three herniated discs from heavy squatting and low pull dead lifts, back in December 2009, I had to accept the fact that these injuries do not heal in a short time. After taking about three months off, I tried to get back into my heavy squatting routine again on 3/27/10. Apparently I had made my problem a lot worse. After viewing my MRI results, it was explained to me by a surgeon that I had slipped my L4- L5 disc out enough where it was leaning on my sciatic nerve. This was causing pain to go down my left leg with numbness and paralysis on my left foot, which occurred over night after that last workout attempt. I was told that I was in immediate need of surgery. My injury was bad enough where I did not have any back pain at all. Instead I had a left foot that prevented me from walking straight. I did not know which direction to turn. Suddenly my fellow co-worker referred me to Dr. Michael Guadagnino, who is the chiropractic physician of the NY NJ Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression Center. The same surgeon that had explained my injury to me through my MRI results, had nothing good to say about the NY NJ Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression Center, and also stated that there is no way it will fix my L4-L5 disc. It had made me feel nervous and hopeless. I had decided to go with the treatments from Dr. Guadagnino on 4/6/10. I could remember my first treatment, and how comfortable and painless it was. The first thing that went through my mind was that “this is too painless to make me better”. I started to see gradual results by the middle of May. When June arrived, my sciatic nerve pain disappeared and my back pain was re-appearing (a sign of improvement). As the treatment went on I started to see more results in my symptoms where my back pains disappeared and got well enough to start gradual lightweight training again. Now I’m at the point where I’m weight training intensely again BUT a lot smarter.
I am very thankful that I am able to workout again. There are certain movements that I was recommended not to do just yet, by Dr. Guadagnino. You better believe that I will listen to him, because he ahs not steered me the wrong way. Thank you Dr. Guadagnino, You fixed me up with your DRX9000 treatment.
Kevin Hibert
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