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Artificial Disc Replacement City of Victoria Texas Firefighter Adam Luther who had suffered from intense and debilitating back pain for years finally finds the cure from Houston Spine Surgeon Dr. Richard Francis. Despite many prior treatments, Mr. Luther was barely...

14 years old Scoliosis Correction At the young age of 12 during a routine visit to her primary care physician, Alexa Toribio and her family were shocked to hear that she had a curvature of the spine and she would have to see a spine specialist. Naturally, her family...

65 years old ALIF/PLIF Lumbar Fusion While Frank Sears was growing up, he was an avid outdoors man. His days were filled with fishing, boating, riding motorcycles, horseback riding, and he worked as a fourth generation carpenter. After numerous years of hard work,...

Before Stephanie Crowe had surgery to correct her scoliosis she was the average high school student. She was on her school’s dance team, she hung out with her friends, and felt a sense of insecurity as most adolescents do. Only, Stephanie was living with a severe...

Traumatic Burst Fracture It was on May 26, 2009 that Donna Odem’s phone rang only to receive a call every mother dreads. Her daughter, Rachel Odem, had suffered a tragic accident. She had fallen off a 25 foot cliff while trying to rope swing into a river. Rachel was...

30 years old Scoliosis Correction It was during a routine middle school screening that Trisha Barnes found out that she was slightly different than her classmates. Barnes was told that she had an “abnormal curve” in her spine. Trisha was an avid dancer, she “took...

ALIF/PLIF Lumbar Fusion Living with pain had become the norm for Yolanda Daigle who suffered an accident that left her with excruciating neck and back pain. For over 30 years she saw physician after physician only to get temporary relief. She “had hurt for so long...

Back to Family My name is Joseph Manjack III. In 2000 I was run over while on foot by a vehicle. Throughout the last 16 years I have been struggling with severe pain in both my neck and lower back. I have two children that I have missed out on so many things due to my...

Back to Family I had, what I was told at the time, a disc replacement surgery, which was actually a fusion of disc C5-6 back in Nov. 2013 performed by another spine surgeon. This surgery had failed along with the disc C6-7 creating enough pain to force me to have...