Dr. Patel and his team have broken their previous record for number of procedures performed in a single day with 38 fluorscopic or ultrasound procedures performed on Tuesday of this week.  More importantly, Patient Satisfaction Survey comments from online submissions rate Dr. Patel and the patient focused service by Deuk Spine staff as ‘superior’.

Normal Aches of Aging or Degenerative Disc Disease?

Prescription Drug Overdose

Rising Statistics & Frightening Facts

Back or Neck Strain vs. Herniated Disc? - How to tell the difference

Back to the Basics: Sciatica 101

Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Sciatica

My number one concern for spine surgery in 2012 is intrusion by insurance companies in your spinal health.

'Yule' appreciate this.  Carrying kids and grandkids, moving boxes, reaching with Christmas decorations... takes a toll on your back and neck.  Maybe just muscles you haven't used in awhile.  Or perhaps a more serious flare up of a disc or facet problem.  Did you know that back problems are in your genes?

Then he slid down the chimney. A rather tight pinch. But if Santa could do it, then so could the Grinch. The little Who stockings all hung in a row. "These stockings," he grinned, "are the first things to go!"