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Alexander E. Ropper, MD
Globus Medical Case Study
A 77-year-old male presented with recurring back pain with some radiation to the left leg. Pain was aggravated with walking and standing, and improved with forward flexion and laying down. The patient completed physical therapy and multiple epidural steroid injections, without lasting pain relief. He had a laminectomy at L4-L5 performed four years earlier.
Stanley Kisinde, MB.ChB, MMed;
Isador H. Lieberman, MD, MBA, FRCSC.
A 75-year-old male presented with long standing history of neck pain and headaches. The neck pain was progressive and associated with a headache that he described as “wrapping around his head in a band-like formation”.
Dr. Jeff Golan
Dr. Oded Rabau
79 y/o healthy male presented with a 4-week history of spontaneous incapacitating shoulder pain radiating down the right arm to the hand in a typical C8 dermatomal distribution.
Jackub Godzik, MD
Jay D. Turner, MD, PhD
38-year-old male presented after motor vehicle collision as an unrestrained passenger with acute back pain without radicular complaints.