Patient Experiences
Various patients have shared their medical experiences - from symptoms
to treatment - highlighting the care they have received from Dr.
Regan.
 LOS ANGELES (Ivanhoe Newswire) —
Degenerative disc disease is a painful and debilitating condition.
The discs in the spinal column begin to erode. Fusion is one option
but that leaves patients with less mobility. Now, a new procedure
offers a better way, and it is entirely artificial.
Karl Nusch's life as triathlete came to an abrupt halt two years
ago. It happened during training for a triathlon. He says, "I
started feeling the pain in my lower back going down into my buttocks
and into my left leg."
Nusch had degenerative disc disease. The lower part of his spinal
cord was decaying. Spinal fusion was an option, but that...
Russ Rice's back pain was so intense he could hardly walk. Two
surgeries had failed to offer lasting help for his damaged spinal
disc, and only large doses of painkillers got him through each day.
Then, as part of a study, doctors implanted an artificial disc
in Rice's back. Just four days later, the California man returned
to work, pain-free for the first time in over a year.
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John
J. Regan, M.D.