| Spine Rehabilitation Program Participants |
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- Phil
" I encourage others who are tired of living in pain and on medications to visit the UI Spine Center. "
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- Wendell
"I am extremely thankful that my CBHCO case manager took the initiative to contact the UI Spine Center after I had not improved with my prior treatment options."
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- Randy
"I think there should be more programs like this one available to soldiers to help them deal with mental and physical problems after an injury. This program was a great help in getting me back in control of my life."
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- Rod
"I don’t know what started my back pain three years ago, but my problem was very cyclical and involved the muscles in my upper back."
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- Brenda
"I had a bulging disc and degenerative disc disease."
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- Don
"I had a laminectomy due to spinal stenosis and I had intense pain from the surgery."
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- Nancy
"When I wasn’t working, I was on pain pills and resting, and getting more and more disabled by my back pain."
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- Steve
"I worked hard at my rehabilitation and was back to work in three months. I was determined to continue working as a fire fighter. However, in 2000 while at work...I had a stabbing pain between my shoulder blades."
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- Janis
"The day that I fell down a flight of stairs and injured my back, my whole life began to disintegrate."
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- Paul
"I had gotten hurt at work trying to shovel a tractor out of the snow."
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- Michael
"I was sent to the Spine Rehabilitation Program following my on duty injury on the railroad."
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- Julie
"I was butted by a 300-pound ram at full running speed while working on our acreage. "
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- Shirley
"The next morning I got up to go to work and I had so much pain in my lower back and left leg that I was in tears."
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- Ron
"I was in a head-on car crash and later had back surgery where I had a fusion that didn’t work. I had severe pain."
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- Larry
"I was run over by a tractor when I was 10 years old and later I ruptured a disk in 1989."
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- Jody
"I developed chronic back pain with debilitating flare-ups."
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| Spine Surgery Patients |
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- Gary
"My symptoms got so bad that I couldn’t even pick up a pair of glasses or raise my hands anymore...I was losing my independence"
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- Fran
"The onset of my pain was very sudden, and without warning. I woke up one morning and literally couldn't walk."
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- Glenn
"I had spinal stenosis and it had gotten so bad that I couldn’t even walk 10 feet without being bent over at a 90-degree angle."
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- Lori
"The back pain was very intense...I was not even able to bend over. I felt like I was only existing, not living.
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- Lyle
"Tests confirmed I had stenosis of my spine and my spinal cord was being compressed."
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