Episode 110 - Spinal Fusion Avoided - 52% Reduction - No Surgery
About this episode
Dr. JD Dudum discusses how Rick avoided spinal fusion surgery through a specific decompression protocol, leading to significant recovery.
Rick couldn't even hold a cup of coffee without dropping it. Tremors in his thumb, numbness in his fingers, and a diagnosis that sounded like a life sentence: a disc extrusion pressing directly on his spinal cord. He was told he needed spinal fusion — and warned to stay far away from decompression. In this episode, Dr. J.D. Dudum breaks down exactly how Rick avoided that surgery — the evaluation that found the real problem, the specific protocol built to fix it, and the results that followed: 90% better in 3 months, a 52% reduction in the extrusion within a year, and a published peer-reviewed research paper to prove it. Today, Rick's 100% better — no more tremors, no more dropped coffee cups, just softball games with his kids. Listen to hear exactly how it happened. 0:00 – Rick's story: tremors, numbness, and a dropped cup of coffee 0:15 – What is a disc extrusion? (And how it's different from a bulge) 0:55 – Cervical myelopathy: why this case was so serious 1:20 – Told he needed spinal fusion — and to avoid decompression 2:45 – The flexion-based decompression strategy 3:15 – 3 months later: 90% better, 29% MRI reduction 3:50 – 1 year later: 52% reduction and a published research…
More episodes of BACK AT IT with Dr. Decompression
- Episode 111 - Your MRI Reveals The Plan - Disc Bulge vs Herniation vs Extrusion
- Episode 109 - Surgery Scheduled, Surgery Canceled - 6 Weeks of Decompression
- Episode 108 - 3 Patients, 3 MRIs, Zero Surgery and How we did it.
- Episode 107 - 50,000 Treatments - Doctors are still getting this wrong.
- Episode 106 - 80 percent Herniation Reduction without Surgery
- Episode 105 - How Jake Avoided Surgery After His Inverson Table Failed Him
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