Patient stories
Real patients. Real MRIs.Their own words.
These are our patients, on camera, talking about what their spine was doing to their life and what changed. Every one of them was told surgery was the road ahead. Every one of them is on this page because they chose to tell you about it.
The series worth starting with
The doctor went through it himself — and filmed all of it
Dr. Barton ruptured the L4-L5 disc in his own back. It was one of the worst herniations he had seen in 23 years of practice, and it was his. He had a foot drop that was getting worse. He was a candidate for surgery.
He treated it the way he treats yours — on the DRX9000 — and he put a camera on the whole thing: the first MRI, the exam, the sessions, the week the foot drop got worse before it got better, and the follow-up imaging at the end. Nothing edited out.
Spinal decompression
People who came in facing surgery
A golfer with a drop foot. A chef facing a three-level neck fusion. A scientist with a 10 mm herniation. A 24-year-old who was told this was just his life now. Their findings were all different, which is the point — the exam and the imaging decide who this helps.
Nerve pain · scrambler therapy
When the problem isn't mechanical
Some pain isn't coming from pressure on a nerve — it's coming from a nerve that learned to keep firing after the injury healed. CRPS. Chemotherapy-induced neuropathy. Shingles pain that never left. Scrambler therapy retrains that signal instead of masking it, and it's drug-free.
See it for yourself
What the treatment actually looks like
No mystery, no curtain. Here is the table, the setup, and the reasoning behind it.
On Google
What patients say on Google
★★★★★ 4.6 out of 5 · 112 reviews on Google
“He has always been straight, understanding, seeking to evaluate before moving to the next therapy or referral outside his scope… We continue to recommend him to others.”
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What happens next
Find out whether your spine is a candidate — for $49
- We schedule your consultation. Bring your MRI if you have one — we can't assess you for this treatment without imaging, and we'll refer you for it if you don't have any.
- We examine you and put your imaging on the screen with you, and explain in plain English what it shows. For most patients this is the first time anyone has done that.
- You get a straight answer — candidate, not a candidate, or here's the option that fits you better — and if you're a candidate, your first treatment happens that day.
Book your $49 consultation
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P.S. Every person on this page had a version of the same week you're having: the appointment that ended in a shrug, the search at 2 a.m., the growing sense that surgery was the only thing left anyone was offering. None of them knew how their story ended when they started. One consultation is how you find out whether yours can look like theirs — and if we don't think it can, we'll tell you that instead.