Back Pain | Sciatica | Bulging Disc

Watch LPGA golfer Nicole Jerray joins Dr. Jeff on WCIU’s You & Me This Morning. Nicole comes on the show this morning to talk about how she has been neck and back pain free for almost a year and a half now after doing treatment at Illinios Back Institute. 

With Father’s Day coming up Dr. Jeff makes a stop at WCIU’s You and Me This Morning to discuss how certain activities that Dad’s do can be causing them back pain. The two activities that they discuss are mowing the lawn and grilling. These two simple activities that men love to do can easily put strain on their backs.

Karen had suffered with hip issues for a very long time but she first hurt her back a couple years ago while she was a nurse lifting up a patient. Right after that Karen started chiropractic care that helped until she started running marathons. The running was bringing back Karen’s hip pain. Then a couple months ago she woke up with severe back pain and it didn’t go away as the day went on. Then she went to sit down and ended up falling on the floor and had to be taken to the emergency room. They did nothing for her pain there so she had the doctor prescribe her pain medicine and went home.

Dr. Jeff makes another appearance on WCIU’s You and Me This Moring with hosts Melissa Forman and Jeanine Sparrow. In this appearance Dr. Jeff goes over tips to avoiding back pain during summer activities. In the summer people tend to spend more time outside doing activities. Most people don’t think about how certain activities can cause back pain in the future. There are certain things you can do everyday to avoid future pain.

Five years ago Mike Mele injured his back while picking up his newly born son. The back pain would be on and off over the years until 8 months ago. The pain became so intense that Mike went to see an orthopedic doctor. The doctor ordered an MRI that showed he had a herniated disc. His doctor set him up with some physical therapy, steroids and a shot in his back. None of these treatments seemed to help. Mike’s orthopedic doctor told him that his next option was surgery. Mike did not want to go under the knife so he did some research and that brought him to the Illinois Back Institute.

Check out Dr. Jeff making another visit to You & Me This Morning to discuss avoiding back pain while golfing with Jeanne Sparrow and Melissa Forman. Many golfers suffer from back pain. The key to avoiding back pain is how you move.

At age 11 Petra hurt herself on a weight machine. She threw her back out and tore her lower back muscles. Since then her back pain had progressively worsened. Over the past 22 years Petra went to chiropractors, physical therapists, pain doctors and had steroid injections.  None of these made her pain go away. Numerous doctors told her that she will need to have surgery in her future if she wanted to be normal again and this left her with no hope. She is only 32 years old and the pain made her feel like she was way older. Petra is a musician and she didn’t want to give up something she loved because of the back pain.

David Harris has been suffering with chronic lower back pain for almost 30 years. The pain started when he was a freshman in college after a fraternity prank went wrong. Ever since then he has had lower back pain that continued to worsen with age. As he got older not only did the pain worsen but also the frequency and duration of the pain worsened. David turned to pain medications, physical therapy, and traditional chiropractors but none of those stopped his chronic back pain.

Please send in all resumes to Christine at Human.Resources@illinoisback.com 

Around 6 years ago Michelle Kibble was outside shoveling snow and breaking up ice like she always does every winter. The next morning she woke up and her back was sore. It progressively worsened over time to the point that she couldn’t hold anything in her hands without being in tremendous pain. Then one night Michelle woke up in the middle of the night in unbelievable pain. She couldn’t sit, stand, or lay down. The pain only went away after she sat in her lazy boy chair. Michelle then woke up that morning with her entire right leg completely paralyzed!