After years of worsening neck pain, Bailey Haven turned to the specialized spinal surgery team at Memorial Hermann Cypress Hospital, where timely treatment of a tumor pressing on her spinal cord helped her return to an active life.
The 67-year-old stayed active, played golf several days a week, rebuilt cars, worked out, lifted weights and enjoyed spending time with his wife, Bonnie. But underneath his active lifestyle was a persistent lower back pain and hip that had followed him for nearly seven years.
Myra Fennell was a healthy, active teenager, focused on softball, school, volunteering and spending time with friends. Then, the next day, she was awakened out of a deep sleep by excruciating pain.
What started as occasional discomfort gradually became more persistent, until the pain made even simple daily activities difficult. Eventually, Beverly found herself sitting in the car at her grandson’s baseball games because the walk from the parking lot to the field felt impossible.
Maricela Cedillo began experiencing minor back flare-ups in her mid-twenties and early thirties, which she attributed to physical activities like running and working out. “My back would hurt,” she says, “but the pain would go away within a day or two.”
Alan Benson had suffered from very painful sciatica for six long weeks by the time he arrived in the office of interventional pain management specialist Divya Chirumamilla, MD. Two physicians work together at Mischer Neuroscience Associates-The Woodlands to ensure their patients access to fast, c...
In September 2011, alpine enthusiast and search-and-rescue team member Miles McDonough fell 65 feet while scaling Mount Stuart in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington state. In the accident, he fractured his right humeral head and scapula, an injury that damaged the brachial plexus nerves co...
Leiomyosarcoma is a rare malignant tumor of the smooth muscle cells that can arise almost anywhere in the body, but is most common in the uterus, abdomen or pelvis. The cancer typically spreads through the blood stream to attack the lung, liver, blood vessels and other soft tissues in the body. L...
In the nine months that passed before 63-year-old Tommy Smith found his way to the office of Daniel H. Kim, M.D., FACS, FAANS, he gradually lost muscle function to the point of paralysis. By November 2012, he could no longer walk, feed himself or move his right hand. “I could see myself deterio...