Amazing Pain Relief
Spinal cord stimulation decreases pain, increases mobility and allows
patients to enjoy their lives again.

When Tony Pandolfi says he’s feeling better, he’s not exaggerating. “There was a point in my recovery when I was walking like an ‘L,’ like the letter L,’” he says. “That’s how hunched over I was.”
A former commercial diver, Tony suffered from debilitating back pain for more than ten years and tried numerous treatments, including back surgery, to alleviate the discomfort. Following his surgery, however, the pain worsened rather than improved, and he says he developed chronic lower back pain on both the right and left sides.
“I could hardly do anything,” he recalls. “I couldn’t dive anymore. I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t sit. I couldn’t lie down. Just the normal stuff, I couldn’t do.” In fact, for two years in a row, when his daughter, who lives in California, traveled to Atlanta in the summer, Tony wasn’t able to travel north and spend time with
her. “I couldn’t even sit for six hours to drive,” he says.
One of the most excruciating developments, he shares, was when the pain attacked his central nervous system, causing him to drop from 220 pounds down to a weight of 158 pounds. “My medical
doctor was very concerned about that.”

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Palm Coast Health Care News | Spring 2010

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Volusia Coast Health Care News | Spring 2010