“Minimally invasive spine surgery has emerged as a truly game-changing option for patient’s requiring spine surgery. The selective removal and/or reconstruction of the responsible spinal pathology while preserving normal tissues minimizes risk, maximizes benefits and…

Alexander’s parents sent Dr. Thapar a copy of an essay he’d written for a High School assignment: “When I was ten years old, I played on an all-star baseball team with our local little league….

Within hours of arriving in the USA to attend the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Haesung Won, a South Korean student, collapsed with a brain hemorrhage which could easily have cost her her life had it…

1. He grew up in Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada. “My first job, and many of my teenage summers were spent working on fishing boats. The North Atlantic Ocean is one of…

A very active young man, Waylon had reached a point where he had solid pain in his lower back as a result of accidents and impacts from four seasons of snowmobile racing, as well as…

Mary Dunn had been suffering from very bad lower back pain for about a year. “I couldn’t do everything that I wanted to do,” she explains. “It bothered me to walk or do any one…

Lisa Buenger is a pediatrician by training, now specializing in chronic wound care and hyperbaric medicine. Lisa had neck pain on and off for 20 years. Then suddenly in addition to the neck pain her…

At the age of 48, Linda Benson, a physical therapist, was suffering from chronic back pain stemming from a 20-year old back injury. “About 80% of the time I was in pain from waking till…